2024-05-15 08:45:05
The necessity to systematically inform the residents and to take efficient measures, which might be faithfully and irrevocably noticed, emerged as a conclusion from the seminar on aircraft tree illness, held on Thursday in Aristi by the Hellenic Society for Setting and Tradition – Zagori Native Committee and the Basis Ioannou Saralis.
The particular audio system dr. Panagiotis Tsopelas, Nicoleta Soulioti and dr. Rigas Tsiakiris, knowledgeable these current concerning the fast unfold of the illness, which has now considerably affected the aircraft timber in Voidomatis and Aoos, declaring that the unfold of the illness is principally resulting from human actions and that the slightest assault of a aircraft by the pathogen is inevitably deadly, and unfold to neighboring timber through their usually linked root methods is nearly sure.
It was additionally understood by all that remedy, by controlling the unfold of metachromatic ulcer illness, is especially costly and sometimes troublesome to implement e.g. in river ecosystems, resulting from particular circumstances within the pure setting of timber and root synapses.
Particular point out was manufactured from the crucial must undertake an info marketing campaign and implement quarantine measures, particularly in areas the place intense human exercise is noticed, corresponding to recreation, as there’s an elevated threat of inadvertent transmission of the illness, in addition to accidents from falls lifeless branches from diseased timber. Additionally nice is the danger of the switch of the lethal fungus to different areas, as a consequence of the contact of wooden elements of the contaminated timber with supplies utilized by guests (e.g. automobiles, instruments, even footwear, and so on.) in addition to its spores pathogen survive for a few years within the soil.
Lastly, the numerous contribution to the fast unfold of the illness was confirmed by crews and machines, which perform public works in riparian or riverine environments, as they usually intervene with out supervision by the forest service and with out observing the protocols of disinfection of instruments and machines.
The place of ELLET Zagori is that it’s completely essential, in addition to extraordinarily pressing, to carry coaching and certification seminars for the crews concerned in pruning and shaping the crown of the centuries-old aircraft timber within the villages, cities and scattered church buildings or different monuments within the countryside, as they’re a part of the cultural panorama of Zagori, now a UNESCO World Heritage Website. In addition to reactivating the committee of specialists for the drafting of the Nationwide Motion Plan, which, in collaboration with related providers and businesses (Native Authorities Organizations, DEDDIE, GEOTEE, TEE, public works contractors, environmental organizations, mountaineering associations, and so on.) , to proceed with planning and taking each applicable measure, in order to save lots of as a lot as attainable of the remaining populations of this monumental and historic tree in Greece.