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The Council of Setúbal admitted Thursday the slaughter of a hundred cork oaks among more than a thousand cut trees at Pinhal de Negreiros, but it was recalled that if the legislation was strictly respected, there would be an even greater devastation. 19659002] "The cutting of trees was decided in order to comply with the legislation to defend the forest against fire and the safeguarding of people and property in this locality near Azeitão", Alderman Manuel Pisco, deputy mayor of the House
"There were no cork oaks slaughtered without the permission of the competent authorities, namely the National Institute of Nature Conservation and Forests (ICNF) ", added the mayor of the CDU
. reacted in this way to the protest of some residents who consider that there has been excessive intervention of the Municipality of Seville, namely with respect to the cork oak slaughter, an idea that is [19659002] "We understand that some residents do not like the change that has occurred, because they've got used to being surrounded by a pine area, but in recent months we have also had expressions of concern from some residents in the event of fires occurring like last year, which involved people and property and that we understand with a warning serious, "said Manuel Pisco
" in Pinhal de Negreiros we do not have an urbanization with a set of but a residential area built in the middle of a pine forest, at a time when the criteria legislation was less tight and where there was no had not the same sensitivity as today, for the problem of forest fires, faced with tragedies last year, "said the mayor, noting that strict compliance with the law would have forced the massacre of some 3,000 trees and
Manuel Pisco recalled that some of the cork oaks had already been affected by the fire of last year, others were next to a gas tank or had electric cables next to the canopy
. The mayor also recalled that an intervention had never been carried out to create safety bands to prevent the spread of fires in this pine area, in order to minimize the risks to people and the goods, but also to improve the conditions of safety, equipment and infrastructures in the Pinhal de Negreiros allotment
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