Canisvliet

Canisvliet is a polder area and nature reserve near Westdorpe in the Dutch municipality of Terneuzen. The total area is 450 hectares. Of this, the nature development area is 100 hectares. The area is managed by the Forestry Commission.
The area was once a tributary of the Honte. After the closure of the Graaf Jansdijk and the Sasdijk, it could be partially drained, creating the Canisvliet inner polder and the Canisvliet outer polder, both east of the current site. The current nature reserve remained uninhabited agricultural land, with brackish water. In the early 1960s, land consolidation took place. The ornithologist Johan van den Steen from Sas van Gent managed to prevent the area from being reclaimed with soil that was released during the widening of the Canal from Ghent to Terneuzen.

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