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The residents of an impasse in Les Pradettes, near Toulouse, are mobilizing to prevent a plane tree from being cut down very soon.
“The tree has been here at least since I moved here in 1995! It’s incomprehensible that it should be cut down,” declares Élise, a resident of Impasse Pierre Fons.
At the bottom of the Pierre Fons impasse, in the Pradettes district of Toulouse, a plane tree of around ten meters is at the center of questions from local residents following the message received by all the inhabitants of the impasse: the tree will be cut down Thursday, May 2: “This tree has been there for at least 70 years, it’s incomprehensible. A situation that greatly bothers the residents interviewed: “Here, apart from this tree, there is not much vegetation. In summer there is shade, the birds come to nest and you can hear them every morning. The tree is not diseased and does not harbor hornets’ nests. My daughters are disabled, they mourn the tree as if it were a friend.” The reasons given for cutting down the tree would be that it raises the tar and that it would therefore be easier to cut it down.
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Cendrine Froment from the GNSA Pays Toulouse (national tree monitoring group) is categorical: “This tree has no disease, it is around 80 years old. It shelters bird nests as well as bats, which in summer , can eat up to 3000 mosquitoes per night In addition, this tree decontaminates enormously, it allows the temperature to be reduced by 4 degrees in the surrounding 400 meters. The tree is not far from the two ring roads, that would be terrible. ‘cut down such a tree.’
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Contacted, the trustee responsible for this felling, “the housing cooperative”, indicated to postpone the felling, without giving a new date.
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