It's not exactly news, nor seems to interest the media even with the repeated appeal to save a gigantic and very old cactus now half dead. The old houses around it, in the district of Hostafrancs of Barcelona, had been pulled down but the spectacular cactus of unusually huge size, badly wounded during the blasting, as shown in the photo below, was left there dying a slow and agonizing death.
The inhabitants there, most born with the cactus accompanying their growth from infancy to adulthood to old age and now with the grandchildren round their knees, had never been without this old friend, who now struggling to survive but seems like it's gradually losing the battle, unless the local Town Hall did something real quick to save it. Local people have begged to have it at least moved to some parks or gardens, care and nurse it back to health, to delight people who have always enjoyed seeing the magnificent evergreen plant that's not green any more.
How can anyone have the heart to let such a rare specimen die??
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