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A SELECTION OF GLOBAL TREE STORIES MAKING THE NEWS

In the news

May 2023
Introduction of Celtic rain forests

https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/65610352

Understanding forest dynamics and ecosystems
https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1365-2745.14098


January 2023
Mapping the world's forests

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/cp/mapping-worlds-forests-how-green-is-our-globe

November 2022
​UNESCO - Heritage Forests and Trees - Carbon sinks under pressure

https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000379527.locale=en​

National Gallery of Victoria launches 'Broken Spectre' film examing the loss of Amazon forests
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2022/oct/01/you-cant-unsee-this-richard-mosses-all-consuming-plea-to-save-the-amazon

October 2022
Indigenous forest management in British Columbia - example of private and public partnership development
www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/british-columbia/article-kanaka-bar-old-growth-forest/

June 2022
World's oldest trees

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/article/whats-the-oldest-tree-on-earth-and-will-it-survive-climate-change

May 2022
Trees and Monarch celebrations - UK

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-61286592 & Living Tree sculpture  https://www.bbc.com › uk-england-london-61187850

April 2022
Forests and trees for better living
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/mar/21/the-big-idea-can-forests-teach-us-to-live-better-trees-model-suzanne-simard

Community Forest Conservation - Papua New Guinea
https://news.mongabay.com/2022/04/podcast-community-empowerment-and-forest-conservation-grow-from-the-galip-nut-in-papua-new-guinea/

Launch of NAA'WAYA'SUM Coastal Indigenous Gardens, Canada
https://www.clayoquotcampus.ca

Ancient trees - UK
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/apr/30/from-ancient-oaks-to-walking-yews-the-story-of-britains-great-trees-forests-and-avenues-aoe

March 2022
Trees migrating across landscapes adapting to climate change
https://www.ft.com/content/7d7621cd-7bb5-4f97-94f1-6985ce038e13

February 2022

Expedited loss of trees in Romania due to harvesting and processing needs of global furniture maker

https://newrepublic.com/article/165245/ikea-romania-europe-old-growth-forest

Tree diversity to increase carbon sequestration and nature services
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2307116-fix-the-planet-newsletter-can-tree-diversity-help-the-climate/

Webinar discussion examining the role ecological and cultural tourism can play in building resilient economies, supporting Indigenous self-determination, fostering reconciliation, and sustaining biodiversity
https://www.waysofknowingforum.ca/dialogue14

January 2022

Ancient trees are vital to forest health
https://phys.org/news/2022-01-ancient-trees-deemed-vital-forest.html

China supports tree growing locally - abroad policies differ
https://hongkongfp.com/2022/01/30/as-china-replants-its-own-forests-it-is-destroying-the-worlds/

Ghost Forests
https://getpocket.com/explore/item/ghost-forests-are-sprouting-up-along-the-atlantic-coast

More tree species to be discovered
https://phys.org/news/2022-01-earth-tree-species-higher.html

December 2021
Fall tree foilage disrupted by climate change

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/article/fall-foliage-disrupted-by-climate-change-might-be-new-normal

Wales - a tree for every citizen
https://www.euronews.com/green/2021/12/07/every-household-in-wales-to-plant-a-tree-as-green-areas-have-a-lower-crime-rate

Microfungal forests - the other carbon sink
https://www.euronews.com/green/2021/12/02/scientists-are-mapping-the-world-s-fungal-networks-for-the-first-time-here-s-how

UN International Mountain Day
https://www.fao.org/international-mountain-day/key-messages/en/

November 2021
Cloning world's oldest trees to fight climate change

https://www.euronews.com/green/2021/11/14/this-ngo-is-cloning-the-world-s-oldest-trees-to-tackle-climate-change

October 2021
Trees, droughts and water cisterns

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2021/10/ancient-water-management-techniques-prairie-farmers-drought-climate-change-solution

​September 2021
African rainforests are stronger carbon sinks than Amazon
https:///www.popsci.com/environment/african-rainforest-carbon-sink/

Health matters: Daycares in Finland Built Their Own 'Forests' to improve children's health and wellbeing
https://www.sciencealert.com/daycares-in-finland-built-their-own-forests-and-it-changed-kids-immune-systems

Rainforests are adapted to hurricanes but maybe not climate change
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/article/rainforests-are-adapted-to-hurricanes-but-climate-change-may-be-pushing-some-to-a-breaking-point

State of the World’s Trees Report, Botanic Gardens Conservation Group
www.bgci.org/our-work/projects-and-case-studies/global-tree-assessment/

August 2021
Reconciling ways of Knowing: Stewarding our relations in Forests and Watersheds

https://www.waysofknowingforum.ca/dialogue-11

Nearly 30% of world's tree species in the wild are threatened
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/09/01/nearly-30percent-of-tree-species-in-wild-threatened-with-extinction-report.html

Scotland to boost land protection to 30% in order to boost biodiversity
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/12/scotland-boosts-biodiversity-protection

Yes, We Can Grow 1 Trillion Trees to Help Fight Climate Change
https://time.com/6093342/1-trillion-trees-climate-change/

Places for forest bathing, Parks Canada
www.pc.gc.ca/en/nature/science/conservation/foret-forest

Trees, carbon sequestration and future climate mitigation
https://theconversation.com/how-would-planting-8-billion-trees-every-year-for-20-years-affect-earths-climate-165284

Sydney orders white roofs and trees to cool climate
https://www.pressreader.com/new-zealand/manawatu-standard/20210825/281741272506878

Alternative food and fuel sources
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/aug/06/ancient-grain-amaranth-food-trend-indigenous
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Mini forests add biodiversity
https://getpocket.com/explore/item/fast-growing-mini-forests-spring-up-in-europe-to-aid-climate

​Creating beauty from bare fields
https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/19483755.couples-wild-idea-creates-blooming-beauty-bare-fields/

Among Finland’s cold lakes and majestic pines, I learned to be present, Guardian opinion piece
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/aug/07/among-finlands-cold-lakes-and-majestic-pines-i-learned-to-be-present-to-beauty

​Tree alphabet
https://www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/artsandculture/arid-40357907.html

July 2021

More trees, more rainfall

https://www.euronews.com/green/2021/07/06/more-trees-more-rainfall-why-increased-tree-planting-could-save-europe-from-climate-change

Underwater forests and benefits
https://www.euronews.com/green/2021/04/28/enormous-underwater-meadows-planted-in-the-uk-to-fight-climate-change

Need for pollinators
The insect apocalypse: ‘Our world will grind to a halt without them’
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/jul/25/the-insect-apocalypse-our-world-will-grind-to-a-halt-without-them

3 million trees and roof-top gardens: European cities make green pledge to improve civic eco-systems
https://www.euronews.com/green/2021/07/13/3-million-trees-and-roof-top-gardens-european-cities-in-green-pledge

Monks Wood Wilderness: 60 years ago, scientists let a farm field rewild – here’s what happened
theconversation.com/monks-wood-wilderness-60-years-ago-scientists-let-a-farm-field-rewild-heres-what-happened-163406

A news article from 2019 offering another perspective of how Ethiopian Orthodox communities are attempting to preserve tree forests and why
https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-africa-49528694

La Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain and the Power Station (Shanghai) co-present Trees Exhibition (07 -10.2021 Shanghai)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Mmit_DfpjU&t=48s. (visual trailer of the installed show)


June 2021
In the UK, t
he Queen’s Green Canopy (QGC) is a tree planting initiative which invites people from across the United Kingdom to “Plant a Tree” to help the environment. For participation options see  https://queensgreencanopy.org

May 2021
Climate change: Area of forests the size of France has regrown worldwide since 2000
https://news.sky.com/story/climate-change-area-of-forests-the-size-of-france-has-regrown-worldwide-since-2000-12303115

Enormous tree-planting push will turn farmland into forests to hit net-zero goals
https://www.independent.co.uk/climate-change/news/tree-planting-forests-woodlands-farming-b1845086.html

In Maya Lin’s New Installation, a Forest Grows in Manhattan
https://www.vogue.com/article/maya-lin-ghost-forrest

March 2021
Is this the end of forests as we've known them?
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/mar/10/is-this-the-end-of-forests-as-weve-known-them


OLDER ONLINE REFERENCE ARTICLES

Harsh, Hidden Lessons of Tree School: Tree education is full of tearing and screaming.
https://nautil.us/issue/40/Learning/the-harsh-hidden-lessons-of-tree-school

Arborglyphs
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/witches-marks-and-other-tree-etchings-offer-window-english-past-180976003/

Global climate change and health of forests
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aac8083

Guidelines to how to report a monumental tree of cultural and historical significance (Italy)
https://www.politicheagricole.it/flex/cm/pages/ServeBLOB.php/L/IT/IDPagina/12186

Italian national inventory ​of monumental trees 
List of monumental trees in Italy pursuant to Law no. 10/2013 and the Decree of 23 October 2014
https://www.politicheagricole.it/flex/cm/pages/ServeBLOB.php/L/IT/IDPagina/11260

Poetry of Trees
http://poetry.nautil.us/article/493/on-learning-the-trees

Six pictures of Paradise: Thomas Struth
https://nautil.us/issue/101/in-our-nature/six-pictures-of-paradise-rp

EARTH OBSERVATION STORIES


June 2021

Jedburgh, Scotland - a map of Scotland has been mowed from the grass fields to be seen as temporary aerial artwork

www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-south-scotland-57510477
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Detailed Aerial Map: Inventory of Old Growth Trees in Italy
https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/viewer?mid=1tm6PFYbmIRKnQgMW6DvUg_Br-lfckCvL&shorturl=1&ll=42.072620523048634%2C12.53943499999999&z=4

OTHER RELATED NEWS

EDUCATIONAL LEARNING RESOURCES
Find a series of educational tools to help teach youth about trees and the environment. Tools for art to biology lessons are included see
https://observer.globe.gov/toolkit/trees-toolkit/activities
CHILDREN STORYBOOKS
Wangari's Trees of Peace: A True Story from Africa
by Jeanette Winter (2018)


Who’s behind the project?
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​Trees for Life project has been supported by the British Council’s Creative Commissions 2021 programme.
This was a series of creative commissions exploring climate change through art, science and digital technology for presentation at COP26.


Trees for Life continues (2021 - present) as an active artists-community collaboration and illustrates that land rehabilitation doesn’t need to be expensive. We understand the benefit of trees to the land and that people can assist in creating better soils and future-proofing sites from climate issues by planting trees.

Trees for Life also highlights that sustainability is dependent on the motivation and generosity of citizens, communities, artists, and scientists working together to redefine the challenges of climate change and to foster the next generation with the idea that we can make an impact through climate art and other creative approaches.

Tree Circles and Trees for Life project are co-led by climate design and media artists, Sylvia Grace Borda (Canada) and J.Keith Donnelly (UK) together with partners Ethiopia (ROBA – Rural Organisation for the Betterment of Agro-Pastoralists ) in the UK (Dundee UNESCO City of Design, Dundee City Council, Scotland),  and Canada (Institute for Sustainable Horticulture, Kwantlen Polytechnic University) to creatively respond to global issues of climate change.  
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