03-10-2020, 10:25 PM
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-ox...e-51817607
A "tiny forest" - said to be the first of its kind in the UK - is being planted in Oxfordshire in a bid to tackle urban wildlife loss.
Six-hundred native trees will fill a 200-sq-m plot - about the size of a tennis court - in Witney, Oxfordshire.
The small, fast-growing and dense forest, planted by environmental charity Earthwatch and Witney Town Council, will mimic native woodland.
The charity said plans were already under way to create another in Oxford.
Tiny forests are based on forest management methods developed in the 1970s by Japanese botanist Dr Akira Miyawaki.
Well, it's not very big - so, I can't imagine it'll be useful to anything except very small animals (like insects, rodents and some of the smaller birds). However, the idea isn't a new one, so presumably it's worked elsewhere.
Good luck to them - and to everyone else who makes one of these!
A "tiny forest" - said to be the first of its kind in the UK - is being planted in Oxfordshire in a bid to tackle urban wildlife loss.
Six-hundred native trees will fill a 200-sq-m plot - about the size of a tennis court - in Witney, Oxfordshire.
The small, fast-growing and dense forest, planted by environmental charity Earthwatch and Witney Town Council, will mimic native woodland.
The charity said plans were already under way to create another in Oxford.
Tiny forests are based on forest management methods developed in the 1970s by Japanese botanist Dr Akira Miyawaki.
Well, it's not very big - so, I can't imagine it'll be useful to anything except very small animals (like insects, rodents and some of the smaller birds). However, the idea isn't a new one, so presumably it's worked elsewhere.
Good luck to them - and to everyone else who makes one of these!
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