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Parks and gardens: we breathe (finally) in Paris

2020-05-28T15:42:07.954Z


From Buttes Chaumont to Parc Montsouris ... the large gardens of the capital will reopen their gates on June 2.


Even though the Bois de Vincennes and the Bois de Boulogne, as well as the Parc de la Courneuve had reopened several days ago, Parisians were impatiently awaiting the reopening of the capital's parks and gardens, the government decided to give them the opportunity to s 'ventilate.

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Despite the requests of the mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, who asked for a derogation from the deconfinement, the gates had remained closed. The Respire association, for its part, had filed a liberty proceedings before the Council of State for the reopening of parks and gardens in the red zone, considering "their closure counterproductive in the fight against the epidemic of Covid-19 " , Favoring" crowds on the public highway ".

A particularly flourishing nature during confinement

With the reopening of part of the parks (there are almost 500 small squares included)), Parisians will rediscover the joys of going green to read or walk but also to contemplate a whole biodiversity of which they did not suspect the presence. Nature particularly flourished during this period of confinement: nesting places, development of precious local flora for pollinators, and natural micro-habitats for insects and birds ... So it is important not to shake up life species but to respect several rules ....

Source: lefigaro

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