Activists try to stop autobahn being built through German forest
by Philip Oltermann in Berlin from on (#58SSF)
Dannenroder tree felling will be a catastrophe, say environmental campaigners
Thousands of climate activists gathered in a stretch of woodland north of Frankfurt on Sunday as a planned motorway extension through the Dannenroder forest pits the autobahn against 250-year-old oak trees.
About 27 hectares (67 acres) of forest are to supposed to cleared by next February to make way for a new 3km stretch of the A49 dual carriageway. Police in the state of Hesse are preparing for months of stand-offs with protesters, who say the erosion of a healthy mixed forest makes a mockery of the German government's ambitious climate targets.
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