Detailed tree canopy mapping
Friends of the Earth recently sponsored
a survey of tree canopy across England
undertaken by
TerraSulis using LIDAR data from the Environment Agency. This analysis is at
the level of ONS census level LSOA, providing more detailed analysis than our own
ward surveys. The data has been mapped
here in
a kml file for viewing with Google Earth.
The colour of an area is graded from red - lowest level of tree canopy- to green -highest. The colour of the dot is determined by the level of social deprivation which goes from red - high deprivation - to greeen - low.
The correlation between tree canopy and deprivation is 0.172 (but very scattered) so as with English cities, the more deprived areas have less tree canopy.
Bristol Tree Strategy
BCC has made fund available for enhancing tree planting and developing a Tree Strategy
for Bristol. Bristol Tree Forum are working with Bristol City Council, Woodland Trust,
Forest of Avon Trust and other organisations in this initiative.
One Tree Per Child planting in 2020/21
Thanks to the excellent data captured and provided by the
One Tree Per Child team this year, we have been able to map all the planting
sites in schools and openspaces of woodland, hedges and the new Tiny Forest. You can
find them all
here. We hope to be able to map previous years so we have a full record of this
planting program which has now planted 60,000 trees since it started in 2014.