Sanitary cuttings nearby Daba Tsagveri
The Ministry of Environmental Protection and Agriculture is carrying out sanitary felling near Daba Tsagveri on an area of 60 hectares of the state forest fund. Today, the head of the National Forestry Agency, Archil Nikoleishvili, together with representatives of local self-government met with local residents and discussed with them the importance of sanitation, the main purpose of which is forest improvement. For cutting are marked ill trees, which are the source of the spread of parasitic diseases.
It should be noted that the National Forestry Agency, along with sanitary cutting, is carrying out works of restoration of the cut down areas.
In the spruce forests of the Samtskhe-Javakheti forest fund, a parasite bark beetle (Ips typographus) is widely spread, it was incidentally imported in country along with imported timber in the 50-ies of the last century and had sensitively affected the quality of the forest.
In 2011, the National Forestry Agency studied the spread of the parasite in the forests of Samtskhe-Javakheti (Akhaltsikhe, Aspindza-Akhalkalaki, Adigeni, Borjomi and Bakuriani) on an area of 26,000 hectares. As a result of the findings, control measures were planned. Since 2013, the deployment of pheromone traps has begun throughout the territory, and monitoring, collection and destruction of trapped parasites is constantly carried out. In total, in 2013-2019, up to 15 million beetles were captured and destroyed. This measure will continue in 2020.
