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In spite of yearly new plantations, today the area of green plantations decreased almost fourth within the town against 1930. Especially, the natural plantations are decreasing in Zaliznychnyi, Pecherskii, Podilskii and some other regions.

The main danger for the town and its suburbs state is made by unregulable recreation pressures (especially, during warm year period), incliding the presence of private motor transport on allotments.

Implement of typical protective signs of new standard is stopped. Too long introduction of one typical protective signs new to standard, first of all because of funds lack.

Unfullfilment of adopted bonds by land users of natural protection units keeping causes their gradual degradation, especially, withering of century reserve oaks.

In Kyiv there are a lot of very old plantations that occupy a big area. Because of negative urban influence they quickly grow old, losing an ecological, aesthetic, landscape and economic value.

In tie with lowering of underground water level pineries are withering through creation of sandpits. So, there is a process of beginnings of biologically weakened pineries in Bilodibrovnyi and Dniprovskii forestries, Darnitskii LPG , because of lowering of underground water level in connection with creation of careers near alluvial grounds for building. Extinction of biological processes diminishes disinfectant, oxigen formating ability of coniferous forests. Such allotments are doomed to speed-up drying out, death and changing to centres of forest pest reproduction.

In Svyatoshinskii LPG while examinating from air of subordinate woods the possibility of second flash of oak moth reproduction is confirmed, that needs immediate implement of preventive arrangements against the pest.

There is a dangerous sanitary situation in Kyiv municipal forests with oak plantations where about 5 thousand m2 of dead oak wood is accomulated as a result of death from oak moth.

Many of soft-leaves trees breeds are damaged by white mistletoe (Metrologychna street, Rylskoho park, Syretskii forest). There is not an effective methods against this phenomenon today. That's why the trees are cut down if they are damaged 50% and more.

In spite of a significant work taken in these LPG, a sanitary and fire-fighting state of municipal forests is unsatisfactory.

 


 

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