Drei Millionen Bäume wurden letztes Jahr von der britischen Regierung gepflanzt … 800.000 sind bereits abgestorben
Three million trees were planted by the UK Government last year…800,000 have already died
Von No-Risk-2584
Drei Millionen Bäume wurden letztes Jahr von der britischen Regierung gepflanzt … 800.000 sind bereits abgestorben
Three million trees were planted by the UK Government last year…800,000 have already died
Von No-Risk-2584
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You really need to care for trees after you plant them. My mother was always onto the council about the care their trees did or didn’t get. They planted a lot of young trees in the park next to where she lived then promptly strimmed them all to death.
I mean it is irresponsible don’t get me wrong .. but better that we start to head in the right direction?
2.2million still alive i guess is another way to look at it
China actually uses commercial scale tree plants to re-tree their cities.
In many T1 cities where the 2nd CBD looks new and the streets super wide and artificially laid out, the trees are suspiciously mature. That’s because they use commercial tree farms and plant mature and semi-mature trees. It takes a lot of skill and the Japanese are arguably the best at moving mature trees. The amount of work that it requires is boggling.
I think it’s relatively clear are planting them beside highways rather than places they would naturally grow.
The idea is that they serve a purpose of making the noise of cars travel less as well as fill a planning quota. In fact they die because the soil is poor and they are on embankments so don’t get enough water.
This happened with Cambridgeshire’s bypass. They just planted more and they died too.
It doesn’t mean it’s a bad idea to plant trees, it’s just a bad idea to make people who build highways do it because they don’t give a shit about trees.
We had a few new trees planted down the end of the road. They put little cages around them to protect them as they grew/keep them straight – but the cages have since been removed. One of the trees is snapped – either by the wind or kids. The other is leaning and will most likely not last much longer (especially if the winds picks up again)
I plant trees with a local voluntary group and droughts are definitely an issue – you will lose trees and you do have to survey the losses and replant.
The planting season is the winter, you have no idea what the next year’s weather will be. The newly planted trees are at their most vulnerable in the following summer so having a very hot dry summer will have done a lot of damage.
But if you have the land set aside and you have tree nurseries bringing new trees along its a setback rather than a disaster. The process of actually planting them out is only a relatively modest part of the whole thing.
Also if they have any sense they plant a little more densely than they really want the eventual forest so if you have a whole area suffer you have to replant but if you have 5% loss in a planted area you probably allowed for that in your initial planting.
Which is exactly why 3 are planted for every one cut down.
Non story.
And people will still vote, defend and support Reform UK, who denies climate change and wants to scrap Net Zero.
Embarrassing stuff.
It goes without saying that trees and plants in Britain won’t fare well under drought. We’re not a desert island, although climate change will intensify desertification effects across the globe.
Don’t say we haven’t been warned…
This is a headline written purely to bash the government. Anyone who has been involved with tree planting at scale will tell you that a significant proportion of them *will* die.
For some context, mass planting with little aftercare (I.e. letting nature take its course) can result in up to 70% of trees dying.
I plant ALOT of trees as part of my job. Seeing a mortality rate of 37.5% isnt ridiculously high. About 10-20% is normal, but a particularly hot and dry summer will play havoc. I think this is a non story.
Those are ok numbers. I have planted 1200 on a patch of „wasteland“ i own. I would guestimate 700 made it to the next year. A hundred or so died the next. The remaining trees are doing well. I will apply for more this year.
Isn’t that the idea? I thought you were supposed to plant 3 trees for every 1 adult tree you want
You can transplant fungi alongside the tree and it’ll improve survivability apparently
I’m pretty sure that’s normal when planting forest etc. You plant three trees for every one you expect to survive to maturity.
Calderdale council has regularly cut down established trees with promises of planting 3/5x more trees in its stead. Apart from the fact the trees are poor quality, not properly installed (we get high winds and most trees never get enough support to thrive) and rarely survive.
Presumably it’s just a box ticking exercise so they can cut down trees to save on budgets for pruning etc.
Thats really not bad. You would expect some to not be viable. Its a much better success rate than pothole repairs lasting beyond 6 months.
I plant a few thousand trees every year, have done for over 20 years. Last year was a tough year for tree planting. Spring started warm and dry and continued through summer. 800,000 out of 3 million isn’t actually too bad given the weather.
This headline feels a bit of a non-event.
I planted ‘Tiny Forests’ in cities during lockdown, following a method named after a Japanese guy called ‘Miyawaki’. This is different from ‘regular’ tree planting but I did learn along the way that typically only a percentage of saplings are ever expected to actually make it to maturity. This is due to a number of reasons but basically trees are planted within a certain radius of each other to ensure that, accounting for the percentage failure rate, enough trees end up growing properly.
I used to work for a local authority and lead several tree planting events. I would always expect a minimum of 10% to die due to natural reasons, however, we had far more trees dying due to anti social behaviour, dogs, and idiots pulling them out for fun.
Although, 800,000 seems like a lot, the 2 million still in the ground is a positive.
800,000 trees funded by government but planted by local council volunteers have died..
Fixed that bullish headline for you.
So the government’s success rate is about the same as mine.
It’s not cost effective to care for trees and keep them alive btw if your goal is quantity over a long period of time you’re meant to just let a lot them die
I planted one in my garden last year and 100% of them died
The kids round our way seem to take great pleasure in snapping them off. Less than half the new trees planted round the area are still whole.
A massive stretch of a motorway i travel had all of its trees felled to widen the carriage way a few years back. They replanted the new verge in the peak of a heatwave right bang in the middle of summer in what was basically dust. It was honestly about a 5% survival rate if that a few years on. I can only see a few tiny patches that are in shade that survived. I done a bit forestry work in the past and we dont even work them months for that reason. What a complete waste of life effort and money.
Another dumb as a rock headline from a journalist looking to make you angry about something. Trees did at roughly this rate after one year as a matter of fact.
Trees mortality rate is quite high. Come back in 3-4 years and measure it then. Did they water the trees and take care of them is the question? Hope so.
Nothing remotely unusual about this
It’s because they give money for the purchase and sometimes the planting, but a support infrastructure is almost never funded. If you aren’t going round watering them the first year half won’t make it.
Lots of good deeds are like this. People always want to give money to the good PR bit, the tree planting or planting the brand new garden. Noone wants to give you the money you need to paint the rusty railings and buy new litterbins.
Considering the weather pattern this year that’s quite a good rate of trees alive