Outside Center Weerribben
Reedland nature centre on a peat-cut marsh, start point for boat and canoe trips among otter habitat.
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This guide to the Weerribben visitor centre at Ossenzijl, near Giethoorn, follows the otters released into the surrounding reedlands in the summer of two thousand and two, the first of their kind in the Netherlands since the species vanished. It reaches back to the road near Joure in nineteen eighty-eight, and to the hunting, nets and polluted water that came before. Best heard at the centre's edge, looking out over the reed beds and straight channels.
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