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Grünheide / Frankfurt (Oder) (dpa / bb) - The US electric car manufacturer Tesla is initially not allowed to clear forest on its construction site in Grünheide near Berlin by court order.
The Higher Administrative Court of Berlin-Brandenburg (OVG) imposed a temporary clearing stop on Thursday.
The environmental associations NABU and the Green League had previously lodged a complaint against a decision by the Frankfurt (Oder) administrative court that allowed the deforestation.
Until the complaint has been decided, the interim ruling, which prohibits clearing, said a court spokeswoman.
After the administrative court in Frankfurt (Oder) had rejected an urgent application by the environmental associations Nabu and the Green League for a temporary stop to clearing, the conservationists moved to the Higher Administrative Court of Berlin-Brandenburg (OVG) and filed a complaint against the administrative court's decision.
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Tesla wants to start operating the plant in Grünheide near Berlin from summer next year.
Initially around 500,000 electric cars will roll off the production lines.
So far, the company has been building through individual provisional approvals because the complete environmental approval from the state of Brandenburg is still pending.
Conservationists and residents fear negative consequences for the environment.
The associations are against the early approval of the clearing of almost 83 hectares of forest on the site on which the Tesla factory is being built.
Your main concern is species protection.
They doubt that the animals were relocated from the forest area as intended.
In their urgent application, they argued primarily that there had been violations of an access ban in species protection law for the strictly protected sand lizards and smooth snakes.
The administrative court in Frankfurt (Oder) had given the reason for the decision that the approval of the early start of the tree felling work was lawful and that the nature conservation law of the State Office for the Environment was not objectionable.
On Tuesday, the administrative court initially stopped the preliminary approval for the clearing in an urgent procedure.