Objecting to the Merryland Park tree massacre, actor Khaled al-Nabawy tweeted on Monday morning: “The civilized world cultivated those trees and we have destroyed them.”
Cairo Governor Galal Saeed has stopped work inside the park to assess the extent it has affected the environment.
Environment Minister Khaled Fahmy said the environmental violations included cutting historical trees and excessive pruning of other trees without first referring to the Environment and Agriculture ministries. He asked the concerned bodies and civil society organizations to find ways to replace the trees.
Edited translation from Al-Masry Al-Youm