The chalk quarry is home to many endangered and protected animal and plant species. Please therefore take particular care when visiting the site – stick to the paths and do not pick the plants. With a bit of luck, you may spot the great crested newt and the plant known as the broomrape, which are on the so-called Red List – a list of plant species at risk of extinction in Denmark unless we provide them with special protection. The broomrape is unique because its leaves do not contain chlorophyll, and so the plant cannot use sunlight for photosynthesis. Instead, it parasitises the roots of plants such as the thistle-like greater knapweed, and has earned its name because it literally starves its host plant.
In the soft, white chalk of the quarry, you may be lucky enough to find fossils of sea urchins, squid and sharks. If you’re going fossil hunting, bear in mind the three simple rules mentioned further down the page.
