Locals in Champel in Geneva are distraught as 45 trees, some of them quite old, were felled.
The trees around the Geneva School of Health have been cut down to make way for an expansion of the school.
The canton has an acute shortage of medical workers – and the new space will be able to handle a further 400 students. The school says more workers will be needed as the population ages.
Even so, the neighbours are shocked at the move – some complain they weren’t told.
The canton says it did insist on most of the vegetation should stay at the edge of the developed area – as well as a large beach tree in the middle.
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