2021-02-06 HS2 Rebellion Vigil for Nature and Iggy Fox
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London, UK. 6th February, 2021. Environmental activists from HS2 Rebellion attend a candlelit vigil in memory of all the trees of Euston Square Gardens, both those already lost to the HS2 high-speed rail project and those expected to be felled in the coming days and weeks.
Activists also paid tribute to much loved environmental campaigner Iggy Fox on the first anniversary of his death.
The vigil took place in solidarity with an unspecified number of HS2 Rebellion activists who have been seeking to protect the remaining trees in Euston Square Gardens by occupying tunnels which they built beneath the site. Bailiffs working on behalf of HS2 Ltd have been trying to evict the activists from the site for the past eleven days but have to date only cleared the activists from the trees and camp and not the tunnels.
Euston Square Gardens is a scarce, and much loved, oasis of mature trees alongside one of the most polluted roads in London. Before felling by HS2 Ltd commenced, it contained examples of London Plane, Red Oak, Common Whitebeam, Common Lime and Wild Service trees.
Euston is an area where local people experience an exacerbation of respiratory conditions and where air quality standards have been regularly infringed.
Activists also paid tribute to much loved environmental campaigner Iggy Fox on the first anniversary of his death.
The vigil took place in solidarity with an unspecified number of HS2 Rebellion activists who have been seeking to protect the remaining trees in Euston Square Gardens by occupying tunnels which they built beneath the site. Bailiffs working on behalf of HS2 Ltd have been trying to evict the activists from the site for the past eleven days but have to date only cleared the activists from the trees and camp and not the tunnels.
Euston Square Gardens is a scarce, and much loved, oasis of mature trees alongside one of the most polluted roads in London. Before felling by HS2 Ltd commenced, it contained examples of London Plane, Red Oak, Common Whitebeam, Common Lime and Wild Service trees.
Euston is an area where local people experience an exacerbation of respiratory conditions and where air quality standards have been regularly infringed.
