Zuid-Kennemerland National Park

National Park Zuid-Kennemerland is a Dutch national park located inside the province of North Holland and set up in 1995. Dutch conservationist Jac. P. Thijsse first wrote about a likely national park between Bloemendaal and the North Sea Canal in 1944. As a end result, the national park De Kennemerduinen changed into set up in 1950. The Zuid-Kennemerland National Park turned into mounted in 1995. It comprised De Kennemerduinen, several nature reserves controlled with the aid of Vereniging Natuurmonumenten and some different regions. The park is situated west of Haarlem in the province of North Holland in the west of the Netherlands. It is positioned inside the municipalities of Bloemendaal, Velsen, and Zandvoort.

It consists of the southern portion of the region known as Kennemerland. The dunes are rich in lime, allowing the boom of numerous plant species that are rare inside the Netherlands. The inland dunes are included with bacciferous shrubs attracting a diffusion of songbirds. About 800 specific plant species that grow inside the dune place of South Kennemerland are displayed in Thijsse's Hof Garden of Thijsse, in Bloemendaal. This wildlife garden became based in 1925 and is the oldest in the Netherlands.