Searching for shade and trees in Nicosia | Cyprus Mail
Searching for shade and trees in Nicosia | Cyprus Mail
Cyprus’ capital city boasts just four per cent of tree coverage Whenever a data collection company releases a table of statistics regarding tree coverage or green spaces in European cities, Nicosia tends to prop it up, or at the very least find itself somewhere towards the bottom. Just four per…
It's no exaggeration that as someone raised on the island of Cyprus, I was astonished by how green the cities looked from above when I first travelled to Europe.
@agrammatic This is incredible. It's a Mediterranean city, so one would expect there would be all sorts of specific vegetation there, with no exception inside the city.
I cannot emphasize enough the mind-boggling culture around urban vegetation in Cyprus - something that only became apparent to me once I experienced other countries.
This is normal in Cyprus. It's common for residents to defend it by saying that fallen leaves are a nuisance, and that mature, tall trees facilitate pests entering higher floors of buildings.
At the same time, more than half of the year is unbearably hot in Nicosia, and walking, cycling, or waiting at public transport stops between 08-20h is indeed incredibly challenging.
@agrammatic@feddit.de wrote:
fallen leaves are a nuisance
What? No, they're not. Not for me, at least. And not a bigger one than garbage thrown all over the place (but that is just speaking from a Romanian who has do deal with all this, oh well).
and that mature, tall trees facilitate pests entering higher floors of buildings.
I heard this argument as well. You can just, you know, clean their house, get some poison for bugs and all sorts of pests... there are solutions.
And ultimately, pests also attract all sorts of predator animals, like birds - keeping these in check.
People are just too afraid of nature...