El Hatillo, and El Cigarral in particular, has been a trend in social networks, due to the confirmation of the felling of a saman that was extracted from an area where a shopping center is being built, where other green species have disappeared before.
The director of Citizen Security of the El Hatillo Mayor’s Office, Javier Gorriño, assumed the task of publishing a photo on Twitter showing a saman located in the El Cigarral urbanization being loaded by a crane, supposedly to be “transferred to be relocated”. The image shows the tree after having been pruned down to the trunk and indignation was expressed on social networks because the specimen is observed with few and short roots.
Transferred to be relocated the Saman del Cigarral. pic.twitter.com/bxGmWBz1BP
— Javier Gorriño Director of Citizen Security El Hatillo (@javiergorrino) May 19, 2023
Several residents of the area and the municipality published photographs and videos about the tree that was removed from the area where a large commercial space is being built.
The construction has generated protests for several weeks. On April 19, residents of El Cigarral protested to expose the “violations of the Urban Variables and the Local Urban Development Program” in which, allegedly, the El Hatillo mayor’s office is incurring with the permits granted for the construction of a Traki store in the area.
There it goes, it is the definitive goodbye to the saman of the cigarral, they cut all its roots, under the complacent gaze of the @ElHatillo and the MINEC but history will be in charge of judging them #elhatilloposible @jaoropeza3 @kattysalerno @CarreroMiguel @gash276 @jpenalver @PlantadosCCS pic.twitter.com/KtSQ53Ucdj
—Arnaldo (@Arnaldoi74) May 19, 2023
Yes Please tell them where they are going to Transplant and Paste it pxq they left it as a puzzle. pic.twitter.com/d5AcYFhEDu
— Miguel Carrero (@CarreroMiguel) May 19, 2023
—Edgar Figueira (@ius_rock) May 20, 2023
Previously, the felling of bamboo, an araguaney and a saman has been denounced, as they are protected species that cannot be cut “on a whim,” according to the Observatory of Political Ecology of Venezuela (OEP).
At the closing of this note, the Mayor’s Office of El Hatillo and Mayor Elías Sayegh had not ruled on the matter.
* Read also: Neighbors of El Cigarral protested “outrages” in the construction of Traki El Hatillo
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