"We just keep chopping and chopping..." Chita residents rose up for the third time to defend the pine forest, which has survived to this day "miraculously."
Пeticion "Save the Chita Forest!" petition was signed on the change.org platform in less than three days. more xnumx peopleIt was created by residents of several nearby houses. They claim that this "corner of pristine pine forest has survived to this day by a miracle," as it served as a protective sanitary zone for the children's tuberculosis and pulmonology centers.
Now, in a natural park in the center of Chita, between Shilova and Tayezhnaya streets, authorities have decided to build three 18-story buildings for medical workers.
"The residents of Shilova Street play sports in this forest; our children are growing up here. They join us for community service days, spend the entire summer here outdoors, listening to the thrushes tapping in the trees and the ants rustling in the grass. For them, this is their small homeland. What can we say to them when the centuries-old forest starts being uprooted before their eyes? And what can we say to the elderly who walk their 10 steps here every day? Where else in Chita can you safely exercise outdoors? The Siberian Military District, Vysokogorye, and the park in the Severny microdistrict—that's all. There are no other places left. We just keep chopping and chopping."
— the Chita residents explained their position.
This isn't the first attempt to cut down the park. In 2013, they tried to build a house here for defrauded equity holders, and in 2018, they also tried to build a residential neighborhood for medical workers, but the regional сthe court recognized The public hearings on the land transfer were invalidated and logging was prohibited. At the end of 2023, the authorities returned to the five-year-old plans.
"We call on all Chita residents, environmental and public organizations to unite in the fight for the purity and integrity of our nature and to resist its destruction in the interests of third-party enrichment under good pretexts and fashionable words about the creation of some kind of "clusters," even medical ones!"
— activists called in the petition.
Photo: MK in Chita
