Love Your Trees

Climate change is resulting in our area becoming increasingly hotter with longer and more frequent heatwaves1. Urban tree canopies play a significant role in helping create liveable neighbourhoods and benefit the health and wellbeing of our community. 

An urban forest is a collection of trees that grow within a city. It is important that we maintain and enhance our urban forest as trees provide 3 – 5 times their cost in overall benefits to a city2 and, as an added bonus, they are stunningly beautiful. 

Find out what you can do to protect our urban forest and what Council is doing. 

 

 

1. https://www.climatecouncil.org.au/resources/hottest-of-the-hot-extreme-heat-in-australia/ 

2. https://treecitiesoftheworld.org/benefits.cfm