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- Angeles Micol explains that "for the plantation and replenishment of trees in the city you have to choose the varieties and species that provide the most environmental and health benefits, not the most decorative"

- The councilor has pointed to the serious problem that exists in the municipality with the plague of 'grafiosis' in the elms, "but we have not gotten any response either"

- Micol recalls that the Consistory has not yet created the Tree of Interest Local, obligation established in the Municipal Ordinance of Green Areas

NOW MURCIA denounces that "more than a year later, the mayor Guillén and the mayor Ballesta instead of finally creating the Mesa del Árbol, have made an informative meeting of the ficus of Santo Domingo".

Angeles Micol emphasizes that "13 months after our motion on the creation of the Mesa del Árbol, months in which there has been a huge number of incidents in the municipality related to trees, and with Murcia now asking again and again that In the event that the municipal PP has convened a meeting mainly to report on the ficus, Ballesta and Guillén have the obligation to look beyond the Santo Domingo copy, no matter how much be the most mediatic, and make an integral management of the plantation and replacement of trees in the city and of the care and increase of the arboreal mass in the peri-urban environment -Huerta y campo- ".

Micol emphasizes that "our motion was approved with the vote against the PP, and everything he is doing shows that he does not want Mesa del Árbol and that he does not care about the trees of the municipality."

The councilor also emphasizes that one point of the resolutions of the motion was the participation in the Tree Table of "entities and groups that help to provide a multidisciplinary vision, such as municipal boards, neighborhood federations, College of Biologists, College of Forestry or the Spanish Association of Landscapers, among others, however, we have only been municipal and technical groups of the City, in flagrant breach of the content of the motion and in a new demonstration of the PP's null interest in opening decisions in the City Council to the participation of groups and entities ".

The Councilor of Now Murcia explains that in today's meeting they have ruled out their proposal "to use native species and varieties for the planting and replacement of trees in the city, apart from the hackberry, but it has not been said that there are studies that indicate What species and varieties are most appropriate What can not be done is to make the choice based on decorative criteria, which is what seems to be done.Today the choice is made by municipal technicians, but there is no protocol It is necessary to analyze which varieties are better adapted to our city, since it is possible that they are not the ones that have been planted so far, it is a very important decision for the city model that we want ".

In this sense, points to the need for this decision involving "botanists and experts from the University of Murcia, who bet on the criteria of quality that trees bring to the city and citizenship."

Thus, we must look for the species and varieties "that offer the greatest environmental and health benefits: those that oxygenate, purify more CO2, provide more shade, etc.".

Micol has also referred to the peri-urban trees, which highlights the presence of protected native species, "such as elm, poplar, hackberry or certain varieties of palm."

The mayor stresses that "it is essential that citizens know that they are protected species by regional and state regulations, since sometimes these trees are acted on from ignorance, which is why the City Council has to do a dissemination work".

Regarding the elms, has pointed to the serious problem that exists in the municipality with the plague of 'grafiosis', "but not on this we have received an answer."

"In addition to the trees that are planted and replenished in the city, the tree mass that we have in the countryside and the Huerta is also very important, and it is something that this Tree Table must also take care of," he says.

"We must increase protection and plant more copies," he adds, "among other things because they are one of the fundamental tools to fight against desertification."

The mayor denounces that the Consistory has not yet created the Catalog of Trees of Local Interest, obligation established in the Municipal Ordinance of Green Areas, which collects the most important historical importance for their age and characteristics: "Many times we value buildings that have 100 years, but we forget instead that there is something even more extraordinary: living beings that are that age.We have to keep our trees alive and in good health, and with even greater care to the monumental trees, which are part of the collective memory of the city and accompany successive generations of neighbors. "

"The Government of Ballesta has been carrying out actions in the municipality's trees that sometimes endanger the health and even the survival of specimens," he says.

"We refer, for example, to cutting roots because they bother the ducts tubing, pruning thinking that they fit the tables of the terraces or cut branches because they throw leaves in. It is, in short, a short-term view that implies that it does not occur to the trees the value and the importance they deserve, we must understand at once that it is essential to take care of the trees not only for them, but also because life without them would be impossible ".

Source: Ahora Murcia