When the Internet KILLS the Trees!

Good Morning Shellaweyya,
What do you do if you're suffocating in a tiny polluted room, with no fresh air except from one tiny window, and then suddenly some ignorant fool closes that window and locks it so you can never open it again, and tells you it's for your own good ???

This is exactly what I felt when I drove in Maadi one evening, and was horrified to see all the 100-year-old trees crucified with ugly little signs
advertising a poor website that claims to be for Maadi !!! Obviously, the people behind the site did that to escape the legal fees of setting up proper signs in suitable places that don't HARM anyone or any living thing for a SELFISH cause of promoting a purely commercial website, and one that is very badly done too !!

For those who don't know, Maadi is the ONLY green suburb left in Cairo, like an ailing lung trying to provide the pollution-sick and crowded city with some fresh air, check this URL to know more about the real green Maadi http://www.egy.com/landmarks/maadi/
for those who don't know, putting a single nail in the trunk of a rare tree
can very easily KILL IT !!

For the un-aware/ careless/ ignorant people behind that disgrace of a site:
If you really cared -as you claim- for our classic, classy, and full of history green suburb of Maadi, you'd know to PROTECT its beauty and promote awareness of its rich heritage, not go to work very diligently to KILL all its rare trees in a single night !!! if you really belonged here, you wouldn't find it in your heart to ruin, you would have known to protect instead!

I urge you if you really care and claim that you didn't know that you're doing harm, to go around and collect all the ugly signs, to get professional help to cure the sick trees, and to plant one tree for everyone you've hurt at your own expense (we've already done that in front of our house at our own expense to correct your horrible mistake!)...that is IF promoting Maadi is the true cause of your website ( all I could see there is a listing of businesses you plan to get advertising from!)!

By contrast, check out pictures of El-Shella participation in campaigns to save the trees in Maadi:
http://www.geocities.com/Wellesley/Veranda/9550/treewalk/elshellatree.h…

Finally: I think that a business that starts by destruction of a public property, MUST end by the destruction of the selfish people behind it, that is the law of Mother Nature, and NO ONE escapes that just punishment!

Sahar El-Nadi
El-Shella.com co-Founder
http://www.el-shella.com