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The planting action has already begun, covering an area of 800 square meters, between the station and an ecovia.
According to a note from the Guimarães municipality, Braga district, the space will have 300 trees and 700 shrubs of species such as chestnut, oak, strawberry and ash, and “different shelters for species”, seeking to “promote biodiversity”.
The “urban forest” is being developed according to the “Miyawaki method”, developed by the Japanese botanist Akira Miyawaki, which aims to stabilise the average temperature of the area in which it is located and to give “new life to abandoned or uncultivated land”.
The City Council of Guimarães explains, in a statement, that these forests in urban areas present "rapid growth and a high rate of carbon dioxide absorption", and are "fresh spaces", in addition to functioning as "sound barriers" and being "visually pleasant” and useful for “improving air quality”.
The initiative is part of the Limp.AR project, financed by the Environmental Fund of the Ministry of Environment and Climate Action with 29,840 euros and developed by the Landscape Laboratory in partnership with the University of Minho and the Guimarães 2030 Mission Structure, a discussion platform for sustainable development in the county.
This project aims to “improve air quality and noise in urban centres”, seeking to “foster the integration of vegetation in urban areas as a way to increase carbon capture”, namely in “places with a high presence of car traffic”.
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This land reclamation initiative is an example to be lauded and strongly supported as it promotes what we would like to see copied elsewhere throughout Portugal urban centres! Hopefully, that will bring biodiversity to us, the dwellers of everyday tinier highrise apartments in increasingly uniform and boring neighborhoods. We expect this mini-forest will assist in creating a more balanced ecosystem that will contribute to improve our quality of life! Congratulations Guimarães, you got it right!
By Tony Fernandes from Other on 08 Nov 2021, 20:41
This is good for the environment, because small trees and shrubs must absorb mass amounts of carbon monoxide and other gases that cause greenhouse effects in order to grow beautifully. This is what happens in order for trees and shrubs to form the wood fibre as they grow they must absorb mass amounts of gases. But they don't use oxygen, they don't need it, so they release all the oxygen, this is great because humans, animals and fowl even fish need oxygen to stay alive. Trees and shrubs are natural air filters. The authorities they should plant thousands of trees and shrubs in all the cities throughout the whole country. It'll keep people healthy, and people will live longer because of more clean air and oxygen.
By Tony from Other on 09 Nov 2021, 12:50