Editing Tree sitting (section)

=== Germany ===
* From 1993 and 1998, tree sits and other forms of obstructive direct action were used to disrupt clearing and road construction at Dissen.<ref name=":2" />
* During blockading against roadbuilding in Thuringen during September 1996 five separate tree sitting actions took place before the tactic was used again the following year.<ref name=":2" />
* Starting in 2012, various sections of the [[Hambach Forest]] in Germany have been occupied to prevent the construction of the [[Hambach surface mine]].<ref name="Doomed_2018">{{Cite magazine |title=Is Germany's Hambach Forest Doomed by Coal? |url=https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2018/04/hambach-forest-germany-logging-coal-conservation-science |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190513203522/https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2018/04/hambach-forest-germany-logging-coal-conservation-science/ |archive-date=2019-05-13 |access-date=2019-05-13 |magazine=[[National Geographic]]}}</ref>
* October 2019 "[[:de:Dannenröder Forst#Autobahnbau und Waldbesetzung|Dannenröder Wald]]" was squatted by around 100 activists opposing planned logging of the old growth for construction of the A49 highway.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Solidarity with the Dannenröder Forest {{!}} Greenwire Deutschland |url=https://greenwire.greenpeace.de/solidarity-with-danni-forest |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220920172547/https://greenwire.greenpeace.de/solidarity-with-danni-forest |archive-date=2022-09-20 |access-date=2022-09-20 |website=greenwire.greenpeace.de}}</ref> The activists were democratically self-organized, without hierarchical leadership. They built more than 100 treehouses in several villages,<ref>{{Cite web |last=Mueller-Ruchholtz |first=Joachim |title=Meet the guardians of an old growth forest in Germany |url=https://i-d.co/article/joachim-mueller-ruchholtz-photographs-dannenroder-forest/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220920173136/https://i-d.vice.com/en/article/n7vaqk/joachim-mueller-ruchholtz-photographs-dannenroder-forest |archive-date=2022-09-20 |access-date=2022-09-20 |website=i-d.vice.com}}</ref> so-called ''barrios'', all over the forest, trying to prevent the destruction of the ''water protection area'' that provides water for 500,000 people in [[Frankfurt]]. They were evicted in October 2020, after more than a year of occupation.<ref>{{Cite web |last=EJOLT |title=Dannenrod forest occupation against highway construction, Germany {{!}} EJAtlas |url=https://ejatlas.org/conflict/dannenrod-forest-occupation-against-highway-construction |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220920172937/https://ejatlas.org/conflict/dannenrod-forest-occupation-against-highway-construction |archive-date=2022-09-20 |access-date=2022-09-20 |website=[[Environmental Justice Atlas]] }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=German police clear forest protesters for autobahn extension – DW – 11/10/2020 |url=https://www.dw.com/en/germany-police-begin-clearing-forest-protesters-for-autobahn-extension/a-55557033 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220922041602/https://www.dw.com/en/germany-police-begin-clearing-forest-protesters-for-autobahn-extension/a-55557033 |archive-date=2022-09-22 |access-date=2023-02-11 |website=dw.com }}</ref>