Teutoburg Forest / Egge Hills Nature Park [SEP] inception
Teutoburg Forest / Egge Hills Nature Park
The Teutoburg Forest / Egge Hills Nature Park () is a nature park founded in 1965 in the northeast of the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. After being expanded in 2008, the nature park in the southern Teutoburg Forest and Egge Hills has an area of 2,711 km, making it the largest in the state and the sixth largest in Germany.
The Teutoburg Forest / Egge Hills Nature Park won the state competition for nature parks, "Naturpark.2009.NRW", with its
Teutoburg Forest/Egge Hills Nature Park" (""Naturpark Teutoburger Wald/Eggegebirge"").
Conservation.
Some 60% of the area of the nature park is forested. As a large, contiguous forest, the landscape unit fulfils an ecological balancing function. The Egge Hills and the Teutoburg Forest are thus important components of the state-wide wildlife corridor. A good 85% of the area is protected landscape, some 10% is nature reserve and around 14% is Special Areas of Conservation. In