Kalmthout Heath

[1] It has been protected as a landscape since 1941, and officially became a state reserve (Dutch: staatsreservaat) in 1964 due to a petition of over 100,000 signatures.

[3] The heath is an infiltration area located in a cover sand region, in the north of the province of Antwerp.

Its relief consists mainly of clay sediments from the Early Pleistocene Kempen Formation.

[4] "De Vroente" is a NME-centre (Dutch: Vlaams Kennis- en Vormingscentrum voor Natuur & Milieu) of the Flemish Government located at the main entrance of the Kalmthout Heath, and is the main visitor centre for the cross-border park "De Zoom – Kalmthoutse Heide" which spans six thousand hectares.

[5] Because of the desiccation and dramatic reduction of biodiversity in "De Groote Meer" in Ossendrecht; in 2015, seven nature organisations advocated for buying lands of the agriculture enclave "The Steertse Heath" located on the Belgian territory of the Kalmthout Heath.

View of the Kalmthout Heath from the top of its watchtower, on 11 September 2005.
View of the Kalmthout Heath from the top of its watchtower, on 11 September 2005.
Marked and numbered sheep within a fenced area of the Kalmthout Heath, on 11 September 2016.
Marked and numbered sheep within a fenced area of the Kalmthout Heath, on 11 September 2016.
Corn field in "The Steertse Heath", amidst the Kalmthout Heath, on 11 September 2016