Fast-food chain faces backlash for felling mature trees in restaurant car park in London borough of Haringey
has been shown to intensify heat in cities
“Removing the trees means you lose the shade, you lose the evaporative aspiration, and then you are putting carbon back into the environment because the carbon that soaked up when the tree was growing is now being released,” he toldIn March, the McDonald’s franchisee running the branch was A spokesperson for McDonald’s said: “Unfortunately, we recently had to remove a small number of trees due to work being done to our restaurant. In advance of the work being done, the local franchisee started discussions with the local council to identify how we can be involved in replacing the trees in the local area.”Catherine Nuttgens, an urban tree specialist at the Woodland Trust, said at least 22 new trees would need to be planted to replace the felled specimens.
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