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A new star has appeared on social media in recent months. It is not just anything, but simply a tree that greets and sends drivers onto the Trakia Highway. In social networks it boils and boils with photos of the tree at kilometer 233 of the road. If we travel from Bourgas to Sofia, we cannot miss this majestic silhouette.
A huge oak tree struck by lightning not once but twice. She literally cut it in two. But it is precisely because of this ray that the tree looks like this. And while it’s scorching hot outside, it’s at least 10 degrees cooler under the wide crown. And most likely, over the years the oak has protected people and animals.
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And so the oak, apparently over a hundred years old, becomes an attraction for travelers on the road between Nova and Stara Zagora. In Benkovski, few know the oak as the “running tree.” However, the natives know it in detail.
“I am 60 years old. I remember a child’s tree. And it was the same size as it is now,” says Stefan Ivanov.
Standing out only in the field, in the years, oak was often used as a landmark, says hunter Stefan. “At night you can see it for miles. It serves as a guide for someone as deluded as me,” he said.
Today, the most famous oak in our little homeland is kept by local farmers. Tractors and harvesters surround him. But the centennial tree was damaged by storms. And when it rains, their bare parts fill with water, rot and become home to various insects.
Whether you are “fleeing” from a terrible storm or from people, we can only speculate. But according to WWF, the greatest enemy of trees is humans.
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“We often mutilate them with our illegal logging. We have been exploiting trees for thousands of years. We have brought many forests to phases where they cannot survive without management. But poaching continues to circulate,” said Konstantin Hristov, WWF.
That is why the Wildlife Fund has developed a free mobile application with which each of us can report illegal logging or a forest affected by a disaster.
In the forest many times we do not have coverage on the phone, so there is the option “Save” and when we find coverage, we can reproduce the signal. And the signals go directly to 112 and the relevant institutions, ”they say from the Fund.
As for the “ordinary” oak, it is already a local landmark. The Benkovski mayor’s office will try to call foresters to inspect and rescue him.
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