For almost two years, a Ginkgo biloba has been strangled to death by a grate in via Laurentina in Rome and despite the appeals and reports, the situation has been static for some time. The tree that stands in front of the underground car park at the height of Via delle Rocciose has been there for over thirty years and is a sort of institution for all Romans and beyond.
For almost two years, a Ginkgo biloba he is dying strangled by a grate in via Laurentina in Rome and despite the appeals and reports, the situation has been static for some time. The tree that stands in front of the underground car park at the height of Via delle Rocciose has been there for over thirty years and is a sort of institution for all Romans and beyond.
Was he sentenced to die after a long agony? We hope not, even if up to now the voices of the citizens and that of Antimo Palumbo, tree historian and president of the Adea Amici degli Alberi association that has long been pushing for change, have remained unheard.
The Ginkgo biloba you see in these images is held in a grate which deteriorates it making it difficult to survive.
“The administrators (those who will celebrate the festival of trees in a while, I wonder with what face they will be able to do it, yes.) Are fugitives. Even after having shot a video a few years ago, published numerous posts in our group, sent at the suggestion of a friend (for the series we think positive) a desperate email to the assistant of the manager on duty "please do something" (you will see you will see he is good he answers you and will do something) that tree is slowly dying strangled by an iron grate. Poor, ”Palumbo writes on Facebook.
As we know Ginkgo biloba was the favorite tree of goethe, one of the first to be reborn after the Hiroshima bomb, a prehistoric tree (fossil records have been found in Jurassic and Cretaceous rocks).
“The Roman newspapers (now this is a fact under everyone's eyes) speak of trees only when they fall. A tree that dies strangled with a cruel death is not a topic for the newspapers of the capital. So maybe in some time (I hope as late as possible) we will be able to read the articles on the fallen (or even worse cut) Ginkgo biloba in via Laurentina. At this point we just have to pray for the fate of a tree (which resisted the Hiroshima bomb but is succumbing in Rome thanks to ignorant administrators) accumulating in the neurons of our memory other anger and sadness for having understood who these administrators are. , those who today are governing the fate of our city. Poor Ginkgo, poor Rome and poor Romans ”, Palumbo comments.
This is the video shot in April two years ago:
What can you do to save him
Last year it seemed that someone was interested in the issue, but then nothing was done, so the association invites everyone to create a media tam tam.
Anyone who passes by the tree must take a photo of the trunk and the grating that imprisons it and send it to the email of the Rome Environment Department, assessorato.ambiente@comune.roma.com
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