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Ecologists in Action has given the City of Abarán and local political groups "Handbook of the tree in the city, with the aim of providing a practical tool for the maintenance and preservation of the trees from the streets and parks, while facing various proposals to help improve the health of trees.
Having more trees and better care are issues that, according to the environmental organization, are also clearly important for citizens and their quality of life.
The idea of bringing these proposals to policy makers and municipal managers, is given by the continuing problems faced by urban trees, because despite all the benefits that society receives from them, often the treatment that she receives no corresponds to its great utility and value.
The aggression that takes the cake is the pruning, so harsh and brutal than the hopelessly sick leave.
In many cases the branches from new shoots grow very weak, so that flow more easily, as well as condemning the tree to never have a natural growth.
Pruning is not maul and unfortunately every year there are several examples Abarán this malpractice, as in the Taray the Wheel Park or wooded city parks.
Sometimes trees are felled and removed or complete landscaping changes in the "aesthetic taste" the councilman or alderman in office.
Most of the time, barbarism is accompanied by a statement that the trees were extremely ill or high risk of falling.
Another great punishment for trees, is the continuous and countless works produced in the streets.
Urban renovations, underground parking, crossing-free, trenches for services (water pipes, electricity, telephone, sanitation), or the renewal of pavements.
This has happened to the trees of the Age, which first disappears completely in this square, in which the environment, studded with buildings and concrete, has become in a few years in an ugly and dreary place.
However, when new trees are planted, not taking into account the type of trees that will influence future growth.
Therefore they are too frequent cases of poor choice of species and location.
Examples are the Jacarandas Rosario Street or the street Ficus S.
Damian.
In both cases involve large-scale alien species, which for lack of space for normal growth, because of the narrowness of the streets, are deemed to be subject to continuous and severe pruning, unable to ever achieve the beauty that gives natural growth.
This could be solved easily using species such as citrus, so typical of our land.
Another case in point was recently planted spruce in the Plaza of the Age to be used as Christmas tree.
Barely lasted a year, inevitably dying, being a northern species brought from away, located in a totally inappropriate location, missing the tree and the money spent on it.
Also worth recalling, as well as the environmental organization said, a rule that is not always true.
The General Management Plan itself Township Municipal Abarán indicates that implementation of green areas provided, it must use native species.
For Ecologists in Action, these proposals provide solutions to these issues and called on the issue of urban tree address permanently out of the political calendar.
According to environmentalists, in many areas of the town of Abarán the absence of life is almost complete, however, instead of trying to improve them, we run like crazy on the weekends to the countryside or the mountains seeking contact with nature.
We therefore need verdetanto as physically and mentally, and urban trees are one of the main resources we have to maintain this contact with nature so much need, if we really aspire to living people.
Source: Ecologistas en Acción
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