9 years already

 In a previous post, I wrote about the strong affinity that Germans have to forests and woods. Recently a proposal was made by the German railway company, the Deutsche Bahn. The company wanted to 

photo of protesters from the newspaper

 

Protests over trees are a common occurrence.  The protest in Stuttgart in October 1, 2010 that I wrote about over the felling of some nearby trees in the park adjacent to the train station resulted in more than one hundred injuries. Most protests, however, are peaceful. When Tesla started clearing a forest in order to build its Gigafactory outside of Berlin in January of 2020, about 200 protesters showed up.