Watch | Meet the man whose eighth bride is 2000 years old

Updated on May 11, 2016 03:16 pm IST

For an eighth time, Peruvian actor and environmental activist Ricardo Torres has symbolically married a tree as part of an ecological awareness campaign to urge others to care for the environment. The wedding took place at a landmark location, the town of Santa Maria del Tule, which is home to an ancient 2,000 year-old cypress tree. The tree's estimated weight is more than 600 thousand tons.

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