Jette Baagøe (née Svendsen, born 1946) is the director of the Danish Museum of Hunting and Forestry in

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where she has worked since 1984. She headed the steering group that began work on the nomination of The par force hunting landscape in North Zealand, which was inscribed on the

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on 4 July 2015.

Biography

Baagøe studied at the

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, graduating in botany, zoology, geology and geography in 1973 with a PhD in botany in 1976. In addition to her museum work, she headed the now defunct Federikborg Cultural Environment Council and has served as a member of the Danish branch of the

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. She has written and lectured on par force hunting in Denmark, on the Jægersborg Dyrehave and on how forests were depicted during the

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. As director, she hopes to modernize the Danish Museum of Hunting and Forestry and simplify its name. She believes it should have a broader mandate covering man's relationship with nature. She is especially interested in the unique network of forest roads in the area which were used for par force hunting by the Danish kings in the 17th and 18th centuries and now expects the museum will benefit from the recent UNESCO heritage listing. Although the listing is under cultural heritage rather than nature, Baagøe hopes it will result in full protection of the forests themselves.

Personal life

Jette Baagøe was born and raised in

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and now lives in

Lyngby Kongens Lyngby (, Danish language, Danish for "the King's Heather Town"; short form Lyngby) is the seat and commercial centre of Lyngby-Taarbæk Municipality in the northern suburbs of Copenhagen, Denmark. Lyngby Hovedgade is a busy shopping stre ...

. She is married to Ib Welling and together they have one child Snorre Welling.

Awards

Baagøe has received several awards for her work including the

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in 1998.

Works

Baggøe's works include: * * *

References

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