Kata Tüttő welcomed cabbage harvest activists and promised them to study the possibilities.

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More than 900 people signed the petition, in which local civilians ask for help from the Metropolitan Municipality to protect part of the forest in Kapusztomijer, which was handed over to Deputy Mayor Kata Toto on Friday.

As we wrote on hvg.hu, the part of the forest in question has long been a construction site, but over the years it has become almost completely covered by forests, and local activists want to protect it.

A chainsaw threatens a small forest in Kapusztamgyer, and a dispute erupts between the two opposition parties amid the great noise

For decades, the plot of land where the owner wants to build an apartment building, which at first glance looks like a forest, has been a construction site. The people of the area are not happy about this at all, who have been trying to protect the forest department for years and have recently organized a chain link and are collecting signatures with the help of support dogs. Citizens are demanding that the municipality explain why it has not done anything yet, even though they won the Green Promise in 2019.

The signatories of the petition partly protest against deforestation and the reduction of green spaces, and on the other hand, they support the petition with which they initiate the withdrawal of the building permit for the plot located in the government office, and they also ask for help from the municipalities of Újpest and the capital.

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They want to ensure that the real estate developer does not cut down trees and does not build any residential buildings on the land. The area is somewhat connected to the Wolf Forest, of which it is not legally part, but is ecologically connected to it. Farkas Forest may be declared a protected area by the Metropolitan Municipality in the coming days.

Kata Tutu, who received the petition, promised that they would look into the possibilities and do what they could on the matter, Pia Kovacs, one of the local activists who also took the initiative to collect signatures, and a candidate for municipal representative from the MKKP party, told hvg.hu about the meeting.