El Niño, the new excuse for the death of the Horcanin trees The trees of the Horcanin forest are threatened every time with a new excuse, and this time it is because of El Niño and concern about floods. Recently, the environmental quality organization in the country and the Mazandaran water company wrote a letter for cutting and collecting the fallen and "dangerous" trees in the Mazandaran rivers. The director general of Mazandaran's natural resources warned of the dangers of leaving these trees during floods, but the secretary of the network of environmental organizations in the country says that controlling the flood damage requires scientific solutions such as watershed management, not cutting down trees that are the natural capital of the country. Also discussed is the story of cutting down Horkani trees during the Elite forest fire; The deputy of the organization for the environment says: Then there were people who called dry and fallen trees the cause of the fire, which is not true; Because 90% of forest fires are of human origin. - Link.