Emergency felling of six trees in downtown Geneva (Daily Life 2016, by Magali Girardin) - Swiss Press Award
Magali Girardin
Geneva, September 23, 2015. Tree felling site on Rue de la Croix-Rouge. Six trees urgently need to be felled. © Magali Girardin.
TRIBUNE DE GENEVE
Photo / Daily Life
2016
Magali Girardin
An entire avenue of hackberry trees—a species native to the south—had to be preemptively cut down in the fall of 2015 due to the risk of them falling. An invisible fungus was eating away at the roots of the trunks. These trees had been planted over a century ago along Rue de la Croix-Rouge, overlooking Bastion Park and the Reformation Wall.
