Environmentalist 'Weds' 1,000-Year-Old Tule Tree In South Mexico
Environmentalist 'Weds' 1,000-Year-Old Tule Tree In South Mexico
OAXACA, Mexico, May 10 (BERNAMA-NNN-EFE)-- Peruvian activist and actor Richard Torres contracted 'matrimony' with the 1,000-year-old Arbol del Tule, or Tule Tree, in an Inca ceremony replete with incense, grains, and conch shells.
The ritual began Sunday around 11:30 a.m. in the presence of dozens of environmentalists and inhabitants of the southern Mexican town of Santa Maria del Tule, most of whom had no idea why the man was kissing and "marrying" the tree whose trunk has the largest diameter in the world.
The wedding was part of the "Marry a tree, save your oxygen" project, whose mission is to stop deforestation around the world, and has already been initiated in Peru, Colombia and Argentina.
"Stop the hand that cuts down trees. I condemn this genocide and ask the president of Mexico to halt the destruction," the environmentalist said during the ceremony.
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