Game Changers: A tree-planting pilot project in the UK shows promising results in tackling antisocial behavior
A Miyawaki forest in Danehy Park, Massachusetts: can the Miyawaki style of tree-planting stop vandalism? Photograph: Cassandra Klos/The New York Timesis truly baffling. Unfortunately, it’s not the first time these attacks have happened. Wide-spaced trees make for popular targets for antisocial behaviour. They are tall and slender specimens, staked with low wooden supports because their pruned roots struggle to anchor them sufficiently against wind and other challenges.
On one side of the experimental plot they planted lone widely-spaced native saplings directly into the grass. On the other side they prepared the ground and planted four trees and shrubs per square metre, following the Miyawaki method, named after the Japanese botanist Akira Miyawaki who pioneered the method in the 1970s.
The Trees Outside Woodlands programme is a department of environment, food and rural affairs project working with five local authorities in the UK “investigating innovative and practical solutions to increase resilient tree cover in non-woodland areas, which have huge potential to contribute significantly to national tree cover targets and boost the benefits of trees for people and nature”.
There are a number of organisations planting Miyawaki-style forests in Ireland. An Choill Bheag is a brilliant schools programme by An Taisce, Stepping Stones, plus ourselves at Pocket Forests. A move to replace those destroyed lone trees with a community-created forest would send a positive message, allow the method to be trialed in a challenging setting and hopefully healing some wounds.
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