The wave of long-term, dedicated and persistent popular resistance, hand in hand with the well-founded legal arguments of the defenders of the Hambacher Forest, found support from the German court. The Munster Supreme Administrative Court upheld the BUND Forest Defenders' proposal and, by decree on October 5, 2018, stopped the felling of the forest. It abolished the original Cologne Administrative Court ruling, where the BUND (Protectors of Forests) originally applied for legal protection against RWE plans that required the removal of the forest. The Forest Protection Committee's proposal was therefore initially rejected...