Vereniging tot Behoud van Natuurmonumenten in Nederland ( en, Society for Preservation of Nature Monuments in the Netherlands), also known as Vereniging Natuurmonumenten, is a Dutch

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founded in 1905 by

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and

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, that buys, protects, and manages nature reserves in the Netherlands. It is a member of the

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. The first area that the organization purchased in 1905 was to protect the Naardermeer, southeast of

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. It had 355 sites under its management in 2010, with a total area of . The largest is De Wieden (); the smallest is Fort Ellewoutsdijk (). The organization also owns 1,700 buildings, of which 250 were provincial or national monuments. In 2013, the organization had 735,000 members and was headquartered in

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. The organization was awarded the

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in 1986.

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