Harrieke (82) has been living in her own piece of forest for 17 years: ‘No one knows what to do with it’

Harrieke Kanters (82) is not the easiest. That is why the Someren bird of paradise has been living in its own grove for seventeen years. In degrading conditions. “It can’t go on like this any longer,” say two old acquaintances – themselves already quite old – who do not let go of him. He would like to share his special life story, with a curse here and there in between.

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