AMSTERDAM : The Netherlands' highest court on Wednesday dismissed claims by environmentalists against organisers of the Dutch Formula One Grand Prix that it threatened a nature reserve around the track and the endangered species inhabiting the area.The Dutch Grand Prix returned to the Formula One calendar
AMSTERDAM : The Netherlands' highest court on Wednesday dismissed claims by environmentalists against organisers of the Dutch Formula One Grand Prix that it threatened a nature reserve around the track and the endangered species inhabiting the area.
The race, reinstated at the renovated Zandvoort circuit to bank on the popularity of Dutch world champion Max Verstappen, drew hundreds of thousands of spectators in the past two years and is sold out again this year. In a series of lawsuits, the nature activists had demanded that permits for the track's expansion be overturned, asserting that builders had destroyed precious dune reserves where the rare natterjack toad and sand lizard live and breed.
Their cases had been dismissed by a lower court in 2021, and the Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday that there were no legal grounds to overturn this decision.
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