A campaign against pruning plane trees on Soborna Street was held in Mykolaiv: the citizens' appeal will be passed on to the City Council and the Ministry of Environment
- Alisa Melik-Adamian
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14:15, 11 January, 2025
On Saturday, 11 January, a protest against tree trimming was held in Mykolaiv on the pedestrianised Soborna Street.
The action was attended by about 50 people, including local residents, deputies and environmentalists, NikVesti writes.
The event was organised by environmentalists Inna Tymchenko and Diana Krysinska. Both of them emphasise that pruning trees can cause irreparable damage to plane trees that were planted in Mykolaiv in the 1950s.
«The purpose of our action is, on the one hand, to show that there are many of us who are against such pruning, and to collect signatures for a collective appeal to the mayor and members of the city council. There we have our specific demands, all of which are related to tree care and why plane trees are not being pruned in the right way, and what further threatens them. So far, we have not seen any reaction from the city authorities, and we do not know how long this will continue. We have already planned to stand and not let anyone near the trees, but we'll see what happens next,» said Inna Tymchenko.
It should be noted that the rally was also attended by Andrii Yantar, a member of the Mykolaiv City Council, and Alla Riazhskikh and Svitlana Fedorova, members of the Mykolaiv Regional Council. They joined the protesters and signed an appeal to the mayor, Oleksandr Sienkevych, and the deputy corps, which Andrii Yantar plans to deliver at the session.
«Unfortunately, the authorities do not rely on public opinion. It seems that we in Mykolaiv have to live in an impenetrable jungle,» Andrii Yantar addressed the participants of the action.
The appeal is also planned to be sent to the Ministry of Ecology and other responsible structures with a request to assess the damage caused to the environment by the actions of the municipal enterprise «Mykolaiv Parks».
Photo report
Scandalous tree trimming on Soborna Street in Mykolaiv
As you know, for the third day in a row, the municipal enterprise «Mykolaiv Parks» has been pruning plane trees in the centre of Mykolaiv. The utility company assured us that the trees would not lose their decorative quality. However, representatives of the environmental inspectorate called the police to draw up a report. The director of the utility «Mykolaiv Parks», Dmytro Chuchmai, said that the pruning of trees between Spaska and Velyka Morska is part of the planned work carried out in accordance with the approved schedule and the decision of the executive committee. On 7 January, the public and the environmental inspectorate managed to suspend the work of the utility company.
However, on the morning of 8 January, the utility company resumed tree trimming. Police officers were called to the scene. Later, the director of the utility «Mykolaiv Parks» arrived there. In the conversation, he noted that the police could not ensure the work of the utility company and were obstructing them. In addition, Chuchmai explained that the trees on Soborna Street were being cut at the request of local residents.
However, Mykolaiv environmentalists have a radically different view of the situation. For example, environmentalist Diana Krysinska speaks of a gross violation of environmental standards. She claims that the municipal enterprise is cutting healthy plane tree branches that are over 30 years old without permission.
On 9 January, under the post NikVesti, former Mykolaiv mayor Tamila Buhaienko wrote on social media that she had tried to convince employees of «Mykolaiv Parks» to stop pruning plane trees on Soborna Street, that it was a mockery of trees.
On 9 January, the environmental commission of the Mykolaiv Regional Council met to discuss the situation with the scandalous pruning of plane trees on Soborna Street. However, representatives of the Mykolaiv City Council and the municipal enterprise «Mykolaiv Parks» ignored the meeting.
Inna Tymchenko, an associate professor at the Department of Gardening and Ecology at Luhansk Taras Shevchenko National University, believes that the formative pruning carried out on the trees can lead to their gradual death. This will also worsen the quality of the air that residents breathe.
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