The Tree Council has collaborated with The Living Tree Company and Auckland Council to produce a handy guide for professionals working in kauri areas about how they need to work on sites potentially infected with kauri dieback disease. This guide will be useful for arborists, landscapers, builders and anyone else disturbing soil or plant material… More
The Tree Council, Waitakere Ranges Protection Society and Friends of Regional Parks welcome the announcement by Minister Megan Woods that the research programme for kauri dieback will now be managed by the Strategic Science Investment Fund via the Ministry for Business, Innovation & Employment and that the budget has been significantly increased. This is an… More
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Local:
New Zealand Arboricultural Association New Zealand Notable Trees Trust
New Zealand Institute of Forestry
New Zealand Institute of Landscape Architects
Earth Charter Aotearoa New Zealand – An online community of Auckland conservation groups
International:
Trees Australia – Famous South Australian Trees
Trees and Design Action Group (UK)
International Society of Arboriculture UK Aboricultural Association
European Forum on Urban Forestry
Trees for Cities (UK)
Tree City USA
Vestavia Hills Tree Commission (USA)
Washington Community Forestry Council
Documents:
‘Protecting and Developing the Urban Tree Canopy’ 2008, Washington: The United States Conference of Mayors www.usmayors.org Schmied Ariane and Pillman Werner.
‘Tree Protection Legislation in European Cities’ in Urban for Urban Green 2 (2003): 115 – 124 www.urbanfischer.de/journals/ufug
‘No Trees, No Future – Trees in the urban realm’ Nov 2008, The Trees and Design Action Group www.forestry.gov.uk/forestry/INFD-7KDEHU L O’Brien, K Williams and A Stewart, 2010.
‘Urban health, and health inequalities and the role of urban forestry in Britain: A review’, Farnham, Surrey: Social and Economic Research Group, Forestry Research and University of Melbourne www.forestry.govt.uk/forestresearch