Professor Andrey Selikhovkin: “It is hard for the trees to live in a city”

On the invitation of the Ministry of Forestry Nail Magdeev, Doctor of biological sciences, professor Andrey Selikhovkin, one of the leading forest pathologists of Russia, visited forest plots of the Prigorodnoe forestry and inspected the territories, whereon pines and fir trees are drying up or have already dried up. Big trees that look rather healthy dry up, their bark blackens and falls off, and needles become yellow. According to A.V. Selikhovkin, due to general climate warming and decrease in humidity of the environment, vermin appear in forests in large quantities. Urban green vegetation suffers from the same type of diseases, and, moreover, it is also exposed to man-induced load. Many citizens of Kazan worry about the destiny of the drying up blue spruce that beautified administrative territories of the capital. According to the scientist, urgent human intervention is required – it is necessary to carry out sanitary felling and treat the trees, if possible.