Pile-dwelling TV is a thorn in the side of environmentalists
Next summer, eight to twelve people are set to live for three weeks in a pile-dwelling village near Pfyn in Thurgau, just as people did 6,000 years ago. But opposition to the SF program is already mounting.
For three weeks next summer, eight to twelve people are to live in a pile-dwelling village near Pfyn in Thurgau as they did 6000 years ago. But there is already resistance to the SF program. The planned location is in the middle of a nature reserve where a beaver has settled and an endangered dragonfly species lives. Outraged conservationists fear that dragonfly larvae could be trampled by the "pile dwellers". This is because the inhabitants of the village are said to bathe in their habitat, a body of standing water. SF spokesman Urs Durrer told the SonntagsZeitung that the television station was aware of the dragonfly species. Careful treatment of nature is part of the project. If SF receives conditions, these will of course be fulfilled.
