Mature trees felled in Bogor

Mature trees felled in Bogor

BOGOR (JP): At least 15 mature trees out of a total of 2,800
unsafe trees inside the town have been felled to avoid them
causing injury to passersby and vehicles.

The felled trees were between 15 and 20 years old.

Some of the trees were dead, some were diseased, while some
others had been weakened by lightning strikes.

"We had to cut these trees down for sake of public safety. We
asked permission from the mayor before felling them," said Hari
Harsono, the head of the town's sanitation and parks agency, on
Wednesday.

He said the Bogor administration had attempted to save some
weakened trees by buttressing the weakened parts with cement.

About 14,000 mature trees, ranging from 15-year-old youngsters
to 100-year-old giants, grow inside the town's boundaries.

Hari noted that the town administration would plant 1,200
trees in the town's parks and along its main roads.(21)