Destruction of Urban Trees: Ignored Environmental Problem

By A. Veigar

In last few years we are witnessing that many large trees in towns and villages are cut
under various excuses which are often only excuses. From alleged danger to bypassers, disease,
building or replacing of infrastructure, roots lifting pavement, ...
Also often when roads are repaired or new cables or pipes put, it is not paid attention to roots of
trees causing irreparable damage which later cause dieing of trees or falling during storms which
would not happen if roots are intact.
Also often works around public trees are conducted by unqualified and uninterested municipal
employees who just want to finish job they are given without thinking about possible damage to
trees and environment.
Those harmful practices caused significant loss of urban trees which have negative effects. In
summer especialy those are visible because there is no shadow so people are forced to stay inside
during hottest parts of day. Also temperatures of asphalt and concrete without protection of trees
are rising causing significantly higher temperatures and even health danger to sensible individuals
and also to dogs who can get injuries from burning asphalt.
To tackle complains from citizens, municipal authorities often organise replanting actions to partialy
replace lost trees but those actions are insufficient and wrongly done. Firstly, planting of trees on
locations of those which previously existed is avoided because they want trees further away from
underground cables, pipes and pavement. So trees are planted in unused areas where they don't
offer shadow to citizens and objects. Also for replanting are used weak saplings with trimmed roots
which prevent them to developing properly and decades could pass before they grow enough to at
least partialy replace previous trees which sometimes existed even before urbanisation of area.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0G29ZKSMS
• ISBN13: 9798274398404
• Release Date: November 2025
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 28 Pages
• Weight: 0.11 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"