VDL says that the shoots of the trees have been carefully transplanted to the compensation area. “They can stay there.”
Yesterday, members of the action group Save the Sterrebos discovered that the 500 trees they had illegally planted at the former factory in March had disappeared. They called this a scandalous and deeply sad action and ‘a serious form of vandalism’.
The activists had planted the shoots in protest against the felling of part of the Sterrebos near Born, which had to make way for the expansion of the VDL Nedcar factory. That expansion ultimately did not go ahead, meaning that, according to the demonstrators, the old forest was cut down for nothing.
Land leased
According to VDL Nedcar, the young trees were not planted in the Sterrebos, but on the site of the former poplar forest next to it. “A poplar forest is temporary in any case, has little natural value and is intended for timber production,” says a spokesperson. “As long as we do not need the poplar forest area for the expansion of our company, that area will be leased as a field to a farmer.”
There were strong demonstrations against the clearing of the Sterrebos. Activists hung from trees for days to stop the forest from being destroyed. In December 2022 we went back to the forest site with one of them:
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