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How trees talk to each other… “A forest is much more than what you see,” says ecologist Suzanne Simard. Her 30 years of research in Canadian forests led to an astounding discovery — trees talk, often and over vast distances. To find out more, let us introduce Suzanne Simard
New UN report highlights changes we need to make A new report by the UN recommends that we must urgently change our diets and stop destroying land so it can absorb more carbon if there is any hope of avoiding catastrophic levels of global warming. A UN advisor commented, ‘Earth has never felt smaller, its natural ecosystems…
Trees can save the world Professor Tom Crowther, whose work specialises in ecosystem ecology, has calculated the number of trees on the planet, three trillion, or 3 000 000 000 040 to be precise. Tom also calculates that we need to plant 3 000 000 000 trees by 2050, or 90 million trees a year…
Trees and climate change Scientists at the Smithsonian are using the leaves of one of our favourite trees, Ginkgo biloba to study climate change. The study involves comparing the fossilised leaves with those collected from living Ginkgo biloba trees. As Ginkgo trees have been growing for some 260 million years they have adapted to climate…
Forest Bathing (and how it can improve your health) Have you come across the term Forest Bathing? Nope, it has nothing to do with taking a bath in the forest, although that does sound kind of cool! It has much more to do with simply spending time with trees. Not jogging, just being with the…
One ‘Hull’ of a Forest The main objective of the project is to plant trees involving schools/ businesses and the general public to help increase the cities woodland cover. Although a pilot art & environmental education project is also being set up with Art Link under the OHOF banner. The long-term aim is to work…
Just 2.6%… Our One ‘Hull’ of a Forest (OHOF) project is going to plant 200,000 trees within a city which has the lowest amount of woodland cover in the UK! Hull has a tree cover figure of just 2.6% against a national average of 8.4%. 200 000 will transform a city, create wildlife habitats, alleviate flash…
Tree planting in the UK We have an exciting future as we step up our work to help the UK become carbon neutral as quickly as possible as the government declares its strategy to plant more trees. PATT has joined the HEYWoods community forestry steering group tasked with planting 1.2 million trees in the Hull…
3 million trees and still planting As we start to work in the UK, Andy Steele reflects on our Framework Species Approach to tree planting in Thailand. Today, we have passed our landmark of creating forests where over 3million trees are combatting the effects of climate change, and our story has only just begun. At the…