Over 1,000 ash trees set to be cut on Montreal’s Nuns’ Island [Video]

The St-Paul Woods are a hidden gem on Nuns’ Island — it is home to more than 100 species of birds and rich with biodiversity.

“This is the entrance of the forest and as soon as you come in and you really feel the peacefulness of the of this place,” said Alain Bosse of Friends of Domaine St-Paul. “There’s also between 10 and 15 different plants that are endangered plants in this in this boise.”

Bosse’s group worries that the area could be at risk, as many of the largest trees in the forest are ash trees that have been infected by the emerald ash borer, an invasive beetle that slowly suffocates and kills the trees.

“What is interesting is you can see it from inside the bark and you see all these little paths that it makes between the bark and the actual tree, so that’s why this tree …