Fire damages 750-year-old oak tree in Poland
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WARSAW: A suspected arson fire in southwestern Poland has damaged a 750-year-old oak tree believed to be the country’s oldest.
The deputy chief forest ranger in Szprotawa, Jerzy Wilanowski, said on Monday that firefighters battled the blaze for more than 30 hours last week using water and foam. He says authorities will know in May whether the tree survived if it grows new shoots.
Wilanowski says he knows of a case of an old oak tree surviving a fire. The tree is nicknamed ‘Chrobry’ after a medieval king, and its trunk circumference is more than 10 meters and height more than 28 meters. The oak is protected by law and an arsonist faces up to 10 years in prison if convicted.
Published in Dawn, November 25th , 2014
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Nov 25, 2014 09:39am
Junipers in Baluchistan more than thirteen thousand (13,000 ) years old disappeared in the last twenty years. Locals burned the junipers. No one was arrested. Although is forbidden by law to destroy the junipers. This was biggest attraction for Japaneses who come to worship the tree, being God.
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