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Micol Angeles highlights "the abandonment of the PP in the fight against these pests and the urgency of acting before the heat of summer"

MURCIA NOW warning that the palm tree is an element that is at risk of disappearing into the landscape of the municipality, due to ongoing pest weevil and the abandonment of the municipal government in the fight against it.

In this regard, the municipal formation indicates that two palm trees have been felled affected in recent days in Annex garden parking Carrefour Zaraiche and warns that there are many others elsewhere in the city, so that seems urgent to take measures to eradicate and control the weevil and other pests tree before the arrival of the heat, a factor that triggers its spread.

Besides the presence of the weevil, now Murcia has requested information and measures to Town Planning, Environment and Huerta on the proliferation of a pest miner pines Torragüera area, based on the complaint of residents of the hamlet.

Councillor Murcia Angeles Micol now regrets that for years, "the council has made dereliction of their duties in relation to weevil, which is killing our palm trees, a fundamental element of the landscape of Murcia and Huerta. The municipal government has never put effective control this plague, by continuously displaying a passive attitude that has made it possible for the plague from spreading. "

The mayor recalled that there is a protocol for municipal action weevil, "but often is not acting effectively according to him," because "in many cases are left for days remains of felled palm trees affected by the plague, when they move immediately to relevant sites to be destroyed. otherwise, it is providing more food weevil "he explains, while reports that this situation does not remove debris promptly happened to the aforementioned palm trees Carrefour Zaraiche.

"It is useless to put droppers with spraying a few gardens if many other palms of the municipality do not receive preventive treatment," says Micol, who urged the council to "review, before the heat of summer, palm trees on public land, to detect outbreaks of weevil and neutralize them. "

Councillor also recalled that the municipal government also has a duty to act operating subsidiary in the palm trees are on private land.

Micol says also "neighbors have warned us that the pine Torre House Falcón has evidence of having miner, so we ask you, if indeed it does, the City Council take action, and also it is a tree protected by municipal, landmark legislation that in any way we can afford to lose. "

The concelaja emphasizes "the importance for the town to have a powerful tree mass, which looks like the PP has a hard time understanding."

In this sense, now Murcia took the last Parliament a motion related to cataloging and thereby protecting trees and groves of the municipality, and also launched a few days ago to involve citizens in these same goals campaign # Arborízate,.

Source: Ahora Murcia