Tbilisi is to open new recreation zones in the city, Georgia Times reports, citing radio ‘Kommersanti’.
Some sections of the non-governmental sector have voiced suspicions that the Georgian forests are being prepared for privatization and cutting down. The mayor’s office insists that the transfer of 8,000 hectares of forests to it will be used for landscaped recreation zones. The municipal officials say that this does not mean that amusement facilities will be built there, and that the nature will remain unchanged.
The mayor’s office clarified that it will work on cleaning the zones.
The non-governmental sector and some of the opposition have been reporting about the decrease in recreation zones in Tbilisi over the last several years.
