Rabbit Mountains

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Rabbit Mountains Nature Reserve

IUCN Category IV - Habitat / Species Management Area

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location Hünxe , North Rhine-Westphalia , Germany
surface 106 ha
Identifier WES-046
WDPA ID 164015
Natura 2000 ID DE-4306-303
FFH area 104.08 ha
Geographical location 51 ° 38 '  N , 6 ° 42'  E Coordinates: 51 ° 37 '38 "  N , 6 ° 41' 46"  E
Rabbit Mountains (North Rhine-Westphalia)
Rabbit Mountains
Setup date 1989
Framework plan Landscape plan Hünxe / Schermbeck
administration Lower landscape authority of Wesel district

The Rabbit Mountains are a nature reserve of around 106 hectares in the North Rhine-Westphalian municipality of Hünxe on the Lower Rhine . As part of the forest "Speller Heide" is the 1989 furnished nature reserve between the Hünxer district Bucholtwelmen and Voerder district Friedrichsfeld . Since 2004 the Rabbit Mountains have also been designated as FFH area DE-4306-303 Rabbit Mountains , which makes them part of the European Natura 2000 network of protected areas . The FFH area is only slightly smaller than the nature reserve; Two marginal areas in the northwest of the area are left out.

Flora and fauna

The Rabbit Mountains encompass an inland dune field with remnants of former heathland . About 90 percent of the area are predominantly middle-aged pine - mixed forests and sometimes very young deciduous forests of oaks and birches were, and especially parts of birch stands heather rich have undergrowth. In the northern part of the area heather and grassland dominate .

Woodlarks and lapwing in particular as well as field crickets are species of community interest according to the fauna, flora, habitat and bird protection guidelines .

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