If the badger family stays, or at least part of it manages to escape forced relocation, the territory will continue to be used. Then another exemption will be needed for the construction plans, Meijer calculates. “The clan lives on about 100 hectares, of which about 84 hectares are outside the Old Temple. But the 16 hectares that the construction project occupies are important to them and they cannot simply find it somewhere else. Then fights immediately break out with neighboring clans. There is no way the municipality will be allowed to reduce their habitat.”
Bad news for the Oude Tempel housing development: badger headquarters are outside the estate
