The variety of “monumental trees,” acknowledged as cultural heritage and positioned underneath safety, has elevated to 10,506 with the registration of 53 extra timber this yr, the Ministry of Environment, Urbanization and Climate Change lately introduced.
Monumental timber, which have a lifespan able to bridging the previous and the longer term, surpass the same old dimensions of their species when it comes to age, trunk diameter, crown diameter and top and thereby maintain a particular place in native historical past and tradition.
The General Directorate for Protection of Natural Assets underneath the ministry works on registering and defending these monumental timber to make sure their, in addition to the setting’s, well-being.
Mustafa Uzun, the pinnacle of the Natural Sites and Natural Assets Department on the General Directorate for Protection of Natural Assets, acknowledged that they establish monumental timber by conducting research that reveal structural traits of the timber, equivalent to trunk diameters, lengths and age.
Regarding the willpower of the tree’s age, Uzun defined that groups extract a chunk known as an “increment borer” from a sure spot of the tree trunk. By counting the age rings on this borer, which represents the growth of the tree trunk through the years, the tree’s approximate age is decided in a laboratory, he famous.
“Then, by comparing the dimensional characteristics determined by us with the criteria for classifying a tree as a monumental tree, we carry out the identification and registration process to protect the tree in accordance with the Law on Protection of Cultural and Natural Assets Number 2863.”
As a part of the conservation efforts, the monumental timber are pruned to take away dry and diseased branches, in addition to branches prone to falling because of weight. Any gaps within the trunk are sealed with grafting wax.
Cavities and broken areas affected by bugs and fungi are cleaned and sterilized in a course of that typically requires eradicating the diseased sections from the tree.
According to the related regulation, people who deliberately trigger injury to protected monumental timber or interact in development and bodily interventions with out permission could be sentenced to imprisonment for a interval of two to 5 years and fined.
As per knowledge from the ministry, the 4,117-year-old yew tree within the Alaplı district of the northern Zonguldak province holds the title of being the oldest.
Other historical monumental timber embrace a 2,329-year-old cedar tree in Antalya’s Kumluca, a 2,282-year-old Oriental aircraft tree in Onikişubat in southeastern Kahramanmaraş, a 2,003-year-old Oriental aircraft tree in Hatay’s Samandağ and a Juniper tree in Taşkent, Konya.
Source: www.dailysabah.com
