A Greenpeace activist protests over the Dannenroeder forest with a paraglider, for climate-friendly traffic planning and against further destruction of the forest for the highway 49. The electrically powered paraglider pulled a banner with a crossed-out highway sign and the demand "Forest Instead of Asphalt". The flight follows the planned route of the A49.
For the further construction of the A49, planned in the 1970s, about 85 hectares of forest north of Frankfurt are to be cleared. The particularly controversial Dannenroeder forest is an intact mixed forest with some buildings over 200 years old and rare animals. The area is located in a drinking water area that supplies about 500,000 people.