On 27 February, Mr. Calvin Wen, Secretary-general of Green Party Taiwan and its official candidate for the Taipei City No. 6 District by-election, spent 26 hours in a camphor tree on the site of the Old Songshan Tobacco Factory in Taipei to protest and prevent its removal.
The protest began on Friday afternoon as Green Party Taiwan members discovered the last tree was about to be removed.
Calvin was able to climb the tree with assistance from several other Green Party members who were then removed from the site by police. An agreement was later reached with police to allow four people to accompany Calvin at the base of the tree. The Green Party argued that the removal of the tree was illegal as the the second environmental impact assessment for the site had not yet passed.
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i can never figure out why people cut down old trees. it takes more than 50 years for many trees to grow and less than 50 minutes to cut it down. i'm happy this tree was saved.
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