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plantyourplace.ca Plant your place - City of Ottawa tree planting program. Free trees, site visit and professional tree planting for priority areas for tree canopy #freetrees #ottawa #cityofottawa #treesandforests #PlantyourPlace #canopycover #treecanopy #treeplanting #freetreeplaning #freetree

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New #research on #trees #forests in #urban areas, focused on how to set #targets #goals #canopycover metrics for #cities, and how to use the SMART approach: Specific Measurable Achievable Resourced Time-bound. With @JMorgenroth

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How to tell if mangrove restoration is working? Listen to the birds The soundscape in mangrove forests can be wonderfully complex. If you prime your ears, you might chance to hear mudskippers sloshing their bellies across silky mud, or fiddler crabs pattering between ...

Want to know if mangrove restoration works? Just listen! More trees, more tree species, different ages, more complexity, more birds. If the mangroves sound like a vibrant chorus, congrats, it’s working. 🐦🎶 #BirdsDontLie #CanopyCover #TreeHeight #ForestAge #ForestSize #MoreSaplings #HabitatComplexity

Fight to save Hunters Hill trees after ‘calculated act of vandalism’ Injected with poison, razed and drilled with multiple holes. Now the latest in an alleged string of “calculated” attacks against Sydney’s trees has left residents fuming.

Penalties for Environmental vandalism aren’t high enough

#CanopyCover #Sustainability
#Ecocide

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The maps that show the tree-free heat islands in your city Australia’s two largest capital cities have far too little tree canopy, which leads to increased rates of obesity, depression, anxiety and heatstroke.

Vickridge said tree-lined urban environments didn’t just lower urban temperatures, but were also beneficial for city dwellers’ emotional and physical health.

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