On Saturday, June 4, a French protester who has been living in a 200-year-old tree near the Eiffel Tower on Paris’ Champ de Mars since May 30 began a hunger strike.
The founder of the Groupe National de Surveillance des Arbres (GNSA), Thomas Brail, has taken up home in the Eiffel Tower’s towering plane tree.
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He is urging the city of Paris and the French government to better safeguard trees from urbanization projects and to curb tourism development. He claims he will remain in the tree until he is assured that it would be safe.
SOURCE: africanews.com
