After crowning, that is, pruning of almost all branches, trees die in a few years.
On her Facebook page, Kharkiv eco-activist Iryna Kravchenko showed a photo of a crowned tree at 130 Akademika Pavlova Street, which has completely dried up in a year.
She suggested that the likely cause of the tree's death was heat shock. After all, plants are the same living organisms that can hardly tolerate the heat, especially without any shade.
Kravchenko said that the tree was cut in the spring of 2020, and in May it released new green branches. However, already in June 2021 it completely dried up and at the end of 2022 it was removed.
"If there was no barbaric pruning, the tree could enjoy life for a long time and make everyone around happy. But he only had to die, when the scorching sun penetrates the body with merciless rays and there is nowhere to hide from it," she wrote.
Earlier, EcoPolitic wrote, that, in Kharkiv, the crowns of 18 out of 19 trees on the embankment were completely cut off, turning them into trunks.
As EcoPolitic previously reported, activists from the village of Kuchakiv, Boryspil district, in Kyiv region want to bring to administrative responsibility those responsible for the destruction of three hundred-year-old white poplars, whose crowns were cut off by utility workers, leaving only the trunks.
