De rol van libellen in het Nederlandse natuurbeleid

The Dutch nature policy is based on general nature conservation in defined areas and concrete policy for ‘target species’. Those targetspecies are selected with the criteria ‘international importance of the Dutch population’, ‘negative trend in occurence’ and ‘rareness’. In 1995 the first target-species list of dragonflies was published. Because of the extended information received through the Atlas-project, it was possible to make a Red List of endangered dragonflies in The Netherlands. This list will be published in 1998. With this information a new target-species list will be made, which probably will be published in 1999. In this article those three lists are given and compared. A discussion is started in what way the targetspecies can be used in the (practical) policy.