Uzbekistan’s State Committee for the Ecology and Environmental Protection on Friday (January 13) published an appeal of the Central Asian Republic’s Minister of Natural Resources Aziz Abdukhakimov, urging citizens to preserve the environment during extreme weather.
‘Heavy snowfall and low temperatures observed in Uzbekistan these days, unfortunately, had a negative impact on greening, especially on young seedlings of some types of conifers and broad-leaved trees.
Due to the excessive saturation of the soil with moisture, as well as the abundant mass of snow, we are witnessing that the trees are severely bent and most of them fall.
I would like to emphasize that the green spaces on the streets of our cities serve as an invaluable ecological, recreational, and image wealth of our republic.
'It is known that an urbanized environment with a minimum number of plants affects the physical and mental well-being of citizens, causes fatigue, and nervous system disorders, and can seriously threaten the health of the elderly, children, and pregnant women', the message reads.
'In our dry, hot climate, exacerbated by the island tragedy, every tree, and every shrub is important to the ecological balance and the health of citizens.
Therefore, officials in all regions were instructed to help the damaged trees, that is, to protect and restore each fallen tree, and to install support poles.
I would like to take this opportunity to express my gratitude to our compatriots, who are not indifferent to the fate of trees on snowy days, and to the organizations that are conducting nature conservation campaigns.
We also call on all our citizens to restore fallen trees near their homes and in their neighborhoods as much as possible. In addition, we invite you to take care of the existing birds in the territory of Uzbekistan, give them grain and build nests.
In this way, we will save our natural resources and contribute to the prosperity of our cities’, the Minister concluded.
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