Municipality helping eliminate trees
"Man doesn't have the right to intervene in nature," says agro-ecologist Meruzhan Galstyan. He assured that the several tons of salt that the municipality has used to clean the heavy snowfall, causes harm to both trees and small bushes.
"Whereas a couple of years ago the municipality poured salt in the roots of the trees, that wouldn't present a serious danger, but the accumulation of salt in the water dissolution leads to osmotic pressure and the plant isn't able to take the necessary micro and macro food elements," says Meruzhan Galstyan.
Galstyan says only red and black slag is useful for the trees and calls on employees of the municipality's nature protection department to use only those substances.
"They should use 90-95 percent of the types of slag and not mix them together. True, salt helps melt the snow quickly, but it also damages the roots of the trees," says the Head of the Department for Agro-Ecology of the Armenian State Agrarian University.
Meruzhan Galstyan calls on everyone to pay more attention to the environment and preserve the trees.
Like every year, instead of cleaning the heavy snow that fell, the municipality administration took necessary measures by pouring salt and sand in the city and saved that mixture for the roots of trees in the city.
This year, according to the municipality's official data, the municipality has used nearly 190 tons of salt and 440 cubic meters of sand.
