Damaged trees to be cut down in Tbilisi

The City of Light company will cut down damaged and diseased trees in Tbilisi and its outskirts.

The company has won a tender on undertaking this process. According to the company’s chairman, cutting down one tree will cost from 17 to 22 GEL. A total of 5,508 trees will be cut down.

As of now, the process has already started. According to head of Tbilisi City Hall’s ecology service Bidzina Giorgobiani, the work will continue through August, while planting of new trees will take place in October-November.

“The felled trees will be replaced by new ones, more resistant to the local environment,”- he said.

He added that the felled trees will be distributed to the socially vulnerable population as firewood.