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After a complaint about the poor condition of a cypress tree in the Glorieta, the Socialist Municipal Group claims a diagnosis with concrete measures on large trees or centenarians of the municipality so that they do not run the same fate as the Santo Domingo ficus
"If the pine of the Episcopal Palace is dusty, how will the trees of the last district of Murcia be?" Asks Councilman Antonio Benito
The Socialist Municipal Group has received this morning a neighborhood complaint about the poor state of the centennial cypress located next to the Episcopal Palace, in the Glorieta.
From the data collected, it seems to be a fungal infection, produced by using this tree as a support for a gardener, constantly moistened to keep the flowers.
"For us, this is a very illustrative example of the policies of the Government team, obsessed with pots and flowers, which last for a nap, while leaving its wooded fate and green areas that are part of our heritage," says the Councilman Antonio Benito.
He also warns that "the high temperatures we reach, especially in the summer months, turn our streets and squares into impassable areas, so we cannot lose a single tree. They are very valuable for our quality of life, not only for the contribution of shade, but because they improve the air we breathe. "
For all this, Benito requires the City of Murcia an urgent solution for cypress, specifically, and a clear and deep diagnosis with protection measures of all those large trees or centenarians of the municipality to continue to be part of our heritage and of our landscape.
"We cannot allow any tree, whether centenary or not, to die."
Likewise, the Socialist mayor wanted to invite the Councilor for Development to review the state of the cypress and other copies of the municipality, "if the pine of the Episcopal Palace, in the area where there are more gardeners, is in this state, no I want to imagine what will be the status of the trees in the last district of Murcia, "adds Benito.
On the other hand, the councilor of the Socialist Group blames the Government team of the City of Murcia for ignoring the conditions of the tree heritage of the municipality.
"This is something that we have been denouncing for a long time. Last July, without going any further, we issued a press release lamenting that the future plans of the City Council for our trees were the 2030 Forest Plan, a plan that includes planting of 100,000 new copies without having previously performed an audit of the current status. "
He insists that "in his announcements, the municipal government has subscribed to the figure 100,000, either to talk about the number of trees we have, hopefully in a better state than this; or those that are going to be planted, even the number of actions that were going to be done in the gardens before the holidays, including the planting of thousands and thousands of plants that we will remove in three months to put new ones. It is certainly a fungible policy of waste and bad management. "
"The municipal official makes a policy with very short legs, spending the money of the neighbors on floral ornaments that, in addition to assuming an expense, cause damage to the tree heritage, such as this centennial cypress. This is something that we cannot continue to allow. We demand to the mayor who stops presenting plans to twelve years seen and undertakes an urgent measure that protects our scarce park of large trees, because we do not want this historic cypress to happen the same as the fiction of Santo Domingo. time, "concludes Antonio Benito.
Source: PSOE Murcia
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