Palm trees to be registered

angele calleja

Feb 9th 2009, 06:32

can someone please tell me where I am to register my sick palm tree in Naxxar. We are treating it but it doesn't look good.

John Xuereb

Feb 8th 2009, 23:14

I found the registration form.
http://www.planthealth.gov.mt/downloads/siu/red_palm_weevil-registration_form.pdf

Y. Sammut

Feb 7th 2009, 10:59

@Frederick Frendo

I agree with you - I have looked everywhere but found no mention of how to contact the authorities and I know enough of the "minn ghand Kajfas ghall ghand Pilatu" attitude of Govt. Departments not to risk wasting half a day in Govt.Dept trekking.

Authorities>>>>Give us an e-mail address, if need be complete with on-line form, and you'll have all the replies necessary. I suggest making it possible for onlookers (i.e. not tree owners) to be also eligible to send in reports, since some of them might be untended. The sooner the better......

John Pace

Feb 7th 2009, 09:13

Shame on the 'Plant Health Department' and the Dept of Agriculture. Imiskom tisthu!!! NOw?? Now you want to register palm trees in Malta? Whatever for? All you will have is information on where once lived palm trees, most of them deades old. After two years of thousands of people turning to the authorities and begging for REAL help and swift action to save our palm trees, the Plant Health Dept wants to make a register of our palm tree CEMETARY !!!!!! You should be sacked. Your quasi half hearted inaction has shown that you have no care and no love for our trees. Please dont insult the majority of Maltese people who care with silly news conferences. You want to do battle with the weevil now? Hello? The war is over!! Its too late now! You've lost. ... and sadly so have we all. Shame!

frederick frendo

Feb 7th 2009, 06:00

does marika Gatt expect us to go to the department concernd to have these trees registered ? . Give us an e-mail address where we could easily register our trees.

Nigel Lawrence

Feb 7th 2009, 05:26

@Albert Bezzina---methinks, if this problen is so serious, then 'twould be better if the Plant Health Department published pictures, of the trees likely to be effected, for insertion into newspapers/website etc.

But it seems we have to do their thinking for them.

Christian Micallef

Feb 7th 2009, 01:59

All the palm trees which have died must be replaced immediately with other trees to make up for the loss of the previous trees.

S Bezzina

Feb 7th 2009, 00:10

Driving down Mtarfa Bypass one can easily notice the large number of infected, dying, and dead palm trees. Some of them are surely over a 100 years old! It's a pity! Worse still is the havoc the liberated red palm weevils will cause this spring and summer on the so far healthy palm trees in the Rabat and Mtarfa areas. When are these trees going to be removed, and with them the danger they are posing to other healthy trees?

Robert Caruana

Feb 6th 2009, 23:37

What does the Plant Health Department director mean by "60 infected trees were currently waiting to be uprooted?" Infected trees should be uprooted there and then and incinerated immediately. Are the weevels within the infected trees waiting too? Or are they infecting other trees?

Immediate uprooting and incineration of any infected trees is the only effective measure to control the spread of this pest. This should have been standard treatment of all infected trees since the pest first appeared on our islands.

Joseph Vella

Feb 6th 2009, 22:07

30days to register, 30 days extention for late comers, 30 days to check the register, 30 days to check the checking, 30 days to decide on what to do, 30 days to decide on how to do it, 30 days to apply for permits, bla bla bla....

C. Tanti

Feb 6th 2009, 20:46

Whilst understanding the concern of the Department as regards trees which are away from public view, and which might be infected, there are two trees which I know of which are there to be seen by all, have been infected for a very long time, and are (by now) probably dead. These are to be found in the Wied ta' B'kara, close to the Church of St. Anthony, Ta' Paris. As far as I know they stand on public land.

Albert Bezzina

Feb 6th 2009, 20:24

It would have been helpful to register vai internet with facility ti send digital photo of palm. Not everybody is a botanist and some palm species may be more valnerable than others.

Chris Vidal

Feb 6th 2009, 20:08

now it is too late to do something. in this case prevention is also better than cure. when the responsible authorities were supposed to do something to control the importation of palm trees from abroad, nothing was done and as always no one is responsible for anything. malta is an island and so this infection (which was known) should had been avoided. now i am afraid that it is too late and the palm weevil will continue to destroy trees irrespective of whether these are registered or not. other countries are very serious about the importation of certain materials due to such risks which can also be cause problems to the local ecosystems

Anthony A. Mifsud

Feb 6th 2009, 19:32

Is this a joke? Driving up Sliema Road, who could not notice that Tree in the Corner of Triq Ic Cawl , has died of that Bu Munqar ahmar. Is it possible that now the Law makers want to register the Palm trees. To Late too little done , il Habel skappa. Tony

Paul Barrett

Feb 6th 2009, 17:24

I have not checked this week but has anyone inspected the palm trees at Kennedy Grove - the ones next to the newly dug rain water channel looked a bit sick last time I looked.

C Zammit

Feb 6th 2009, 17:20

Does this registration include palm trees in small plant pots ? ( Approximately 2 feet in height ) It would also have been helpful to give a Tel number for the Plant Health Dept.