Within RDA Project: Dozens of Felled Trees along the Highway at Quatre-Bornes

11 years, 9 months ago - 18 March 2013, Le Mauricien
Within RDA Project: Dozens of Felled Trees along the Highway at Quatre-Bornes
Dozens of trees have been felled since Thursday along the highway at the entrance of Quatre-Bornes, specifically at the road to Sodnac. These cut trees did not escape the many motorists who use this road daily and have reported "the massacre caused to the environment."

Because even if logging is required, as in this case where it is in the framework of the expansion of Tulip Avenue, off private land or leased it n ' remains a threat to the environment.

works undertaken by the Road Development Authority (RDA) since the beginning of the year, the project Upgrading & Widening of Tulip Avenue at Quatre Bornes, have appeared he said, caused a stir motorists and residents. it is obvious that the sight of these trees sacrificed can hardly leave you indifferent. While the RDA says permission of the authorities concerned, namely the Department of Woods and Forests, was obtained after the approval of the ministry.

Conversely, according to the information gathered, the RDA should ensure than double the number of trees to be replanted sectioned. But how long, ask the road users and environmentalists. The latter, aware that the killing of these trees is done with a view to decongesting road say they still sorry. And even more, realizing that many landowners are engaged in the same year - as has been the case recently in Albion, where forty casuarinas were cut hastily - under work construction purposes or private industry.

It is in this perspective that the voices are more likely to rise to denounce the "massacre caused to our environment" and that "parallel actions to ensure the protection of nature do not always ... "