The hotel tourism company "Mimoza" from Tivat cut down one of the hundred-year-old large pines in the Ivovića park complex in Donja Lastva yesterday.
A completely healthy tree about twenty meters high and almost a century old was cut down, as "Vijesti" unofficially learns, after persistent complaints and repeated requests from the owners of the neighboring plot, who believed that there was a danger that a large pine tree would fall on their property and damage their house , that is, the smaller church located on that plot.
It is the southernmost tree in the row of six huge pine trees that stretch in a north-south direction in Ivovića Park - the former representative estate of Anton Ivović, a well-to-do resident of Lastov, who, among other things, was also the owner of the former brick and brick factory "Račica" from Tivat .
His spacious and representatively arranged property in Donja Lastva with a large stone palace on the seashore, a park and a large pond was nationalized after the Second World War and later belonged to HTP "Mimoza". In the then still beautiful and luxurious park, five bungalows were first built in which the former "Adriatic Parachute Meetings" were held, and then the gradual devastation of this complex continued with the further construction of new bungalows in its northeastern part, the demolition of the stone colonnade and the pergola on the promenade through complex, by burying ponds near the coast, and finally by demolishing the Ivović palace itself, which was damaged in the 1979 earthquake, but not to such an extent that it could not be repaired.
Later, carelessness, bad weather, plant diseases, palm rot and the like made a good part of the dendroflote of the once beautiful park to collapse, which in the meantime has been further devastated by the construction of several smaller buildings of different purposes in various parts of it, as well as by the concreting of several plateaus for mini golf. which never took root here. Yesterday, the Ivovića park complex was further disfigured because one of the remaining six large pines - pine trees "paid with its head" because the Tivat tourism company decided to cut it down in order not to "get into trouble" with the neighbors, even though it was a completely healthy tree. the tree.
What the felled pine looked like and what its dimensions were, now reminds a total of five remaining such trees in its vicinity.
"I counted 97 years on the widest part of the felled pine tree, which means that it was a tree almost a century old. I can't believe that someone was capable and ready to do such an ecological and crime against nature, but in the cultural heritage and landscape of Boka because Ivovića Park is precisely part of that cultural and historical heritage and a recognizable feature of the landscape of Donja Lastva. It is simply unbelievable that the times have come when such a natural and cultural treasure is being destroyed recklessly and out of someone's most mundane interests," Prof. Dr. Miodrag Grbić, a world-renowned expert in genetics, from Lastov who lives between Tivat and Toronto, where he teaches as a professor at the West Ontario University there.
Yesterday, he was one of the first to come across a cut tree and immediately informed the media about it.
"The tree in cross-section is completely healthy, I counted it 97 years old, which would correspond to the construction, also unfortunately, of the destroyed architectural emblem of Lastva, the former complex of Ivović. For something like this in Canada and in the normal world in general, you go to prison or a mental hospital", this world-renowned scientist did not hide his indignation.
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