Another great news for tree lovers: Prague will plant one million trees
Hi there my Steemit friends and followers!
Just a couple of days ago, I informed you about the amazing plan by the Australian government to plant one billion trees by 2050 in this post and today, I am coming with another exciting piece of news on a similar topic but this time around, the news came from the capital city of my Czech homeland, making me even more stoked about it! :)
Illustrative photo. Taken by me in rural Silesia, Czech Republic
Prague authorities just announced that one million new trees will be planted in the city in just 8 years. Considering the fact that the total population of the Czech capital is some 1.3 million, there will be almost one new tree planted per inhabitant, which sounds like an epic greenery boost :)
The newly planted trees should be of various species to avoid monoculture problems and besides reducing air pollution in the city, the trees should also improve its landscape´s ability to retain rain water.
If you checked my recent post about some of the most beautiful natural places in Prague, you know that Prague is already quite a green city but once this ambitious plan gets implemented, it will be a true heaven for all those tree lovers and tree huggers out there ;)
That's great news! I love it when cities have a lot of parks and greenspaces in them.
This is actually super important, and can save millions of dollars in the event of flash floods. Even pretty small patches of green spaces in the middle of a city can potentially prevent a lot of damage from these things.
Exactly :) There is a whole bunch of benefits that come with more forested landscapes.
That's amazing news. London are you watching? :)
I thought you would like it :) And yes, I hope not only London but many other cities in Europe and around the world are watching :) Btw it sounds like a good reason for you to dust off your Czech and visit my homeland again, huh? ;)
Hahaha.. for sure. Sooner rather than later haha.
This is a good news and an ambitious project because these trees will add more beauty to the city of Prague
That´s right :) More beauty and better environment.
This are some beautiful colours ❤️
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Thank you :) Trees are awesome, they come in all shapes and colors.
Whaat? :O To kde ich chcu narvat :D Sak to je hrozne vela nie?
Nevím, asi i na Václavák :D
Well done Australia, and well done Prague!
Yeah, definitely a way to go for other cities and countries :)
So happy for these great news! Wish something alike will happen over here too, soon :)
Well, based on your amazing videos, I would say Romania cannot complain about lack of forests but yeah, the more trees, the better for us and for the planet ;)
Romania is one of the countries with the most forests, or..it was. Because there are massive land clearing. They cleaned even the last virgin forest from Europe which was on Romania...
Wow... so sad :(
Sadly, can you really trust our representatives? I won't get excited prematurely on this.
No už to údajně schválili, tak snad se toho dočkáme :) I kdyby jich nakonec vysadili jen půlku, pořád to bude krok správným směrem.
i agree with this. cause this plant is very helpful for nature and environment. thanks for good working.
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Exactly :) Thanks for stopping by again.
brother why you said, stopping by again, i don't know. actually, i also try to learning, about anything. i know my english speaking and writing skill is very poor. but i believe one day, i will recover it. thank you.
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Wow great initiative .. In my country they just cut down trees :(
Really? Did you know Suriname has the largest percentage of forested area in the world at incredible 90.2%? It is really sad to hear that you are cutting down those trees though :( Why is that? Lumber industry?
I don't know about Suriname, but here in Norway we do cut down a lot of trees as well, because it has gotten a bit out of control. Basically big trees like spruce and pine become more and more dominant, and smaller species like flowers and shrubs completely disappear when the big trees block out the sunlight.
This is not only bad for the plants themselves, but has also lead to animals like moose or deer not being able to find enough food. So we regularly see the cutting down of trees as a good conservation strategy in parts of the country.
Wow, this is a very interesting insight. It sounds perfectly reasonable but still, whenever I see a big healthy tree being cut down, it makes me sad. But what caused this disbalance? Is it happening in real wilderness too?
It just has to do with the fact that we have been cutting down trees for very long; some of these areas have been regularly logged since the viking ages. This allowed enough time for interesting species to show up, and at this point we consider these species to be as important to the flora as the trees. Even though they might not have been here if it had not been humans in the area.
It raises an interesting questions; at what point should we consider it to be "pristine"? Many areas around the world has had humans interference for thousands of years, and it does not really make sense to strive towards a goal of making the area be how it was before this point. The agreed upon number in Norway is 200 years ish, but it might be very different in other parts of the world.
We only have very small patches of "real wilderness" here in the sense that real wilderness has never been logged. So it probably does not happen there. There small areas have a very different ecology compared to the areas that have been logged in the last few hundred years, so these are strictly protected from logging now.
"It raises an interesting questions; at what point should we consider it to be "pristine"?"
This a very good point actually. Just like you said, way too many natural places around the world have already been modified by humans and the very original, pristine wilderness might now be restricted to just several small areas. Which is sad in my opinion. I generally don´t like it when people interfere with nature too much. In my country, for example, we have been having serious problems with the bark beetle because decades ago, during the communist era, then environmental "experts" were, for some reason, planting only spruces and when the bark beetle disater struck now, the entire forests have to be cut down. Typical example of human interference with nature going wrong.
So the lumber industry is basically in the hands of the Chinese, which export large quantities back to china. The just ship the tree trunks and process it there , so basically we are getting pennies for good\exotic\durable wood. Its great to have a convicted drug dealer as president #sarcasm