A million thanks, you spent a most worthwhile evening!!!
Thanks to Oliver and friends, Sam Dickinson and the Pentland Explorer scouts, we planted 180 new hawthorn and dogwood trees last night (in the dark!) and rescued another 20 survivors still alive at Hillend Country Park.
A million thanks, you spent a most worthwhile evening!!!
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There’s a savage beauty to Connemara in County Galway, but there’s also the feeling of something missing.
This is a landscape strangely bereft of trees. What the mind registers is a vast emptiness. The place feels heavy with some dark mystery. It feels like a crime scene.“This whole area would have been covered by trees,” a woman said. “What happened to them?” “We happened. We chopped them all down.” Then a storm uncovered an ancient, drowned forest off the southern coast of Connemara - trees that were more than 7,000 years old and had remained submerged for millennia. Oak, pine and birch which were once part of woodlands populated by people, wolves and bears. Royal landholdings generate huge incomes for the Royal family, and should be used for the benefit of nature and for public good through an ambitious plan to rewild. #RewildTheRoyals #rewilding #biodiversity #ecology
We've made it our mission to plant 50 million #trees across the UK by 2030. But the UK as a whole needs to plant 1.5 million hectares of additional #woodland in order to reach #NetZero by 2050 Get involved and help us #PlantMoreTrees! https://bit.ly/3CI4rJa
1.5 million seems a lot, but it's increasing the UK’s woodland cover from 13% to at least 19%. Start planting trees to fight against climate change and we can start making a change together! #livinglegends #changemakers #makingchange #fightingclimatechange Trees offer hope: they are a natural defence against the climate crisis and make the planet a happier, healthier place for everyone. Science shows that woods and trees are one of the best ways to tackle the climate crisis - they combat its devastating effects: flooding, pollution, and extreme weather and temperature. They are also the ultimate carbon captors, absorbing atmospheric carbon and locking it up for generations. Woodland Trust @WoodlandTrust The Edinburgh Conservation Film Festival is a 90-minute programme composed of short films made with the intention to inspire and engage a broad audience with stories of positive biodiversity conservation success.
The theme of this year’s festival is ‘Healthy Planet, Healthy People’. We are looking for fresh stories about the links between biodiversity and the health and well-being of people across the planet; be this physical well-being, mental health, climate security or economic stability. We are looking for short films (up to five minutes) that inspire and engage a wide audience. Films should look to explore the global interconnectedness of all living things, highlighting our relationship with and responsibility for the protection and custodianship of life on Earth. Planting more trees in cities could cut deaths from summer heat - increasing urban tree coverage to 30% can lower temperatures by 0.4C. Out of the 6,700 premature deaths in 2015 attributed to higher urban temperatures, 2,644 could have been prevented had tree cover been increased.The cities most likely to benefit from the increase in tree coverage are in south and eastern Europe, where summer temperatures are highest and tree coverage tends to be lower. In Cluj-Napoca in Romania – which had the highest number of premature deaths due to heat in 2015, at 32 per 100,000 people – tree coverage is just 7%. In Lisbon, Portugal it is as low as 3.6% and in Barcelona it's 8.4%. More than half of the world’s people live in towns and cities, so trees are going to be critical in making urban areas resilient to climate change and improving urban environments. Urban trees bring many co-benefits beyond climate change adaptation: many studies show just seeing and smelling trees benefit health and wellbeing, as well as enhancing urban biodiversity. But most tree cover is found in wealthy towns and neighbourhoods, so enhancing urban tree cover can reduce this inequity and particularly reduce the high vulnerability of poorer neighbourhoods to climate change. Scotland's ancient Caledonian pinewoods are an incredible part of our culture and environment. They support a kaleidoscope of life, from tiny lichens to charismatic capercaillie. But they are on the brink of collapse. Here is how we can help save them.
Our team of NextGen rewilders will be hosting a monthly webinar series based around their Rewilding Reachout resources.
Join us at 7pm on Wednesday 15 February for the first in the series, exploring what rewilding in mountain landscapes means to young people across Scotland. Scotland’s national tree, the Scots pine, was found to be in serious decline at a quarter of the more than 1200 half-acre plots analysed by rewilding charity Trees for Life.High deer numbers, spread of non-native conifers, lack of long-term management, and emerging impacts of climate breakdown are major threats to the pinewoods’ survival.
950 bare root trees received from IDigTrees.
190 Hawthorn, 190 Hazel, 190 Blackthorn, 190 Dogwood, 190 Dog Rose |
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