Joburg City Parks and Zoo take walk to examine the shot-hole-borer infestation
PARKVIEW – Joburg City Parks and Zoo admits many trees in Craighall have reached their lifespan and the shot-hole-borer is slightly speeding up the process.
Johannesburg City Parks and Zoo hosted a site visit from Zoo Lake to Rosebank to examine the shot-hole-borer crisis.
Residents have asked Joburg City Parks and Zoo for help and to find a plan to handle the problem, as trees affected by the polyphagous shot-hole-borer (PSHB) outbreak continue to deteriorate.
MMC for Community Development in the City of Johannesburg, Nonhlanhla Sifumba, organised the walk after several meetings with residents.
Our Rosebank Killarney Gazette editor Ashtyn Mackenzie and journalist Sarah Koning have joined the site visits, follow their tweets here:
Adelaide Chokoe aboriculturist from @JoburgParksZoo explains how they map the tree and how they collect the information with their GPS device #shotholeborer on Fricker Road #Illovo @Marttwit pic.twitter.com/zwzPCOyOtZ
— Ashtyn Mackenzie (@AshtynMackenzie) February 26, 2019
This tree is a type of plane and has been marked red by @Joburgparks with a high #shotholeborer infection in Illovo @RK_Gazette @Marttwit pic.twitter.com/LI7LadUak9
— Ashtyn Mackenzie (@AshtynMackenzie) February 26, 2019
Ben Masalesa heads up the @JoburgParksZoo academy says that the PSHB #shotholeborer still baffles scientist to this say @RK_Gazette pic.twitter.com/9mRME8NaR2
— Ashtyn Mackenzie (@AshtynMackenzie) February 26, 2019
"We advise residents to chop down their dead trees within their yard, cover it will a plastic tarp and left to dry in the sun for 2 months" says @JoburgParksZoo to avoid the spread of #shotholeborer @RK_Gazette pic.twitter.com/lXhbNpgFgv
— Ashtyn Mackenzie (@AshtynMackenzie) February 26, 2019
Adelaide Chokoe an aboriculturist from @JoburgParksZoo says that many trees in #CraighallPark have reached their 75 year life span and #shotholeborer slightly sped-up the process @RK_Gazette #CaxtonCares #SaveOurTrees pic.twitter.com/DgrYx0xbHF
— Ashtyn Mackenzie (@AshtynMackenzie) February 26, 2019
Local resident addresses points on how the RA' s such as Parktown North are asking for help from @JoburgParksZoo @Marttwit @jozi117 #shotholeborer @RK_Gazette cares about our trees #CaxtonCares pic.twitter.com/kenUxfCBr4
— Ashtyn Mackenzie (@AshtynMackenzie) February 26, 2019
