GREEN ZONE BY THE RAILWAY

12.11.2009.

Palilula Municipality has designed the project of cleaning terrains and planting seedling trees in a form of an alley in `Dusana Popovica` street by the railway. Professional team of Public enterprise `Gorica`, Nis is engaged in this work. This team is directed to cleaning wild vegetations and weeds, digging seedling pits and cleaning of wild dumps. 130 new birches will be planted in this area This location was visited by PhD Igor Novakovic, president of Palilula Municipality and Milan Djurdjevic, president of Palilula Municipal Assembly, Bojan Ilic, head of Municipal administration and Milan Stevanovic, member of Palilula Municipal council. Branimir Jezdimirovic, director of Public enterprise `Gorica`, spoke about the significance of this activity and this terrain.

Palilula Municipality realizes projecting of a new alley and birches planting  in the cooperation with national campaign `Green cities of Serbia` that was recently initiated by Public office of the president of the Republic of Serbia. This activity is also a part of worldwide ecological campaigns `Billion of trees for Planet Earth` - `Green paths of Europe` - `Stop climate changes` promoted by EKOpolis aiming at increasing and spreading of green surfaces at the territory of the City of Nis and Palilula Municipal territory. `At the basis of implemented researches in the last 30 years, the number of green surfaces in Serbian cities is five times reduced, which brings to damaging of life surrounding. With this action Palilula Municipality wants to approach EU standards that advise minimum of 25 square meters of green surfaces per citizen in cities-emphasized president Novakovic during the meeting with press. `Our action – emphasized also Novakovic - beside increasing and forming of park surfaces and adaptation of inter-blocks greens in municipality (Memorial Park `Bubanj`, Delijski Vis, Old Nis Cemetery `Gorica`, Botanic garden, Kula…) takes into account woody plants seedling in central settlements of municipality, as well as forming of alley by the railway. Beside seedling, planting and cleaning of this areas, ecological – educational programmes are being realized in the cooperation with NGOs (EKOpolis, Ekoland, Scouts Union, sport clubs), voluntaries and educational institutions (elementary schools, faculties, grammar school `Svetozar Markovic`, nursery schools) all taking part in activities. It is very important, with the help of these actions and projects, but also constant education of children and young people, to develop ecological consciousness and improve it. Is should appreciate in the best way  the possibilities that nature offers to us. For this objective, we became the members of `Green network of City of Nis` emphasized Palilula authorities. With the help of Public Enterprise `Gorica`, Public Enterprise `Mediana` and their communal services, that will organize planting and cleaning of areas, the present state in this area will be improved.