London’s trees are saving the city billions

Re:London’s trees are saving the city billions by mikorym on Sunday March 15, 2020 @02:17PM (#22585380)

By the way, in Johannesburg this is not the case.

The natural vegetation in many parts of the highveld here naturally had almost no trees. (Pretoria does have a lot of trees naturally.)

Berlin is the only city in the world with more trees today than Johannesburg.

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Re:London’s trees are saving the city billions by xinsight on Sunday March 15, 2020 @02:37PM (#22585550)

Berlin has 431k street trees. Toronto has 11 million trees (including presumably ravines and natural areas) - and I'm sure other cities have similar amounts. Why do you think Berlin has the most trees?

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Re:London’s trees are saving the city billions by Barrin92 on Monday March 16, 2020 @03:28AM (#22590751)

Not the OP and not doubting your numbers but to me that was also surprising. When I remember Berlin I think of streets like this:

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/7e/5e/70/7e5e7045c4443f645731...

when I think of Toronto I think more of this:

https://imgur.com/xB702UU

In German cities in my experience treets often seem more imposing or covering more space, maybe that's the difference as North American streets are much wider.

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Re:London’s trees are saving the city billions by mikorym on Monday March 16, 2020 @10:00AM (#22592734)

I think I may be wrong about Berlin. Googling around it does seem like Toronto and Johannesburg are close together (both around 10 million trees), but are the trees in Toronto planted or natural? In JHB most of the trees were planted.

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