https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jul/01/tokyo-anger-plans-redevelop-historic-city-park-meiji-jingu-gaien | ‘Tokyo would lose its soul’: anger over plans to redevelop historic city park |

"Campaigners say turning Meiji Jingu Gaien into a commercial hub will destroy 1,000 trees and area’s architectural heritage" | #Japan #Tokyo #TreesAndStuff

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/29/canada-wildfires-us-crews-shift-strategy | ‘It burns wild and free up there’: Canada fires force US crews to shift strategy |

[...] "And the effects of these large fires aren’t just local: thick smoke blanketed swaths of the US in early June while this week, Chicago and Detroit briefly had the most unhealthy air in the world as a new wave of ashen air drifted south." | #environment #ClimateChange #wildfires #Canada #UnitedStates #TreesAndStuff ('this is fine' dot gif)

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jun/27/destruction-of-worlds-pristine-rainforests-soared-in-2022-despite-cop26-pledge | Destruction of world’s pristine rainforests soared in 2022 despite Cop26 pledge |

"An area of primary rainforest the size of Switzerland was felled last year suggesting world leaders’ commitment to halt and reverse deforestation by 2030 is failing" | #environment #Amazon #deforestation #TreesAndStuff

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jun/01/brazil-amazon-crime-dom-phillips-bruno-pereira | Brazilian Amazon at risk of being taken over by mafia, ex-police chief warns |

"Saraiva warned of dire consequences for the rainforest and its inhabitants if criminal gangs were allowed to grow into powerful armies like the rebel factions in neighbouring Colombia. “We will have criminal insurgents … [whose] ideology is money,” he said." | #Brazil #Amazon #AmazonRainforest #HumanRights #sustainability #environment #ClimateChange #TreesAndStuff

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/sierra-leone-cotton-tree-falls-storm-symbol-freedom-rcna86370 | A centuries-old tree fell in a storm — and left a hole in a nation’s heart |

[...] "The weight of the loss “is comparable with the 2019 fire that destroyed the Notre Dame cathedral in Paris,” Zebek said. " | #SierraLeone #TreesAndStuff

https://undergrowth-feed.tumblr.com/post/717614036693499905 | #TreesAndStuff

https://undergrowth-feed.tumblr.com/post/705577653373206528/thewowanderlife-circles-around-trees-it-is | #TreesAndStuff