"Tesla ... has been officially ordered by a German court to stop cutting down trees on a site it is clearing for its first car plant in Germany (GF4)."
... "The top administrative court in the Berlin-Brandenburg region issued a temporary ban to stop the cutting down of trees after two environmentalist groups appealed a lower court's decision to allow it,"
"Tesla CEO Elon Musk had previously said of the forest: "This is not a natural forest — it was planted for use as cardboard & only a small part will be used for GF4."
" ...groups have claimed that there are animals living in the forest that have not yet been safely resettled prior to Tesla's "clearing of trees" across 200 acres.
The groups are worried most about "sand lizards and smooth snakes", which are both protected species in Germany, they wrote in their appeal."
I'm disappointed that saving the trees was not a reason for stopping construction permanently. Who cares about sand lizards and smooth snakes?
