Tamsin Faragher

Working to build a liveable world

Tagged: urban forest

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Opinion Pieces

What role do urban forests play in building resilience in a treeless biome, like we have in Hoerikwaggo – the Mountain in the Sea (Cape Town)?

I was recently invited to deliver a keynote address at the World Urban Forest Forum held in Washington D.C, USA. Initial puzzlement at why Cape Town would be invited – a treeless biome – turned to curiosity. And a whole level of new thinking around urban forests and resilience –...

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Opinion Pieces

Should we plant millions of trees in Cape Town? What impact will it have on climate change? If any?

“Rising temperatures will cause more death than all infectious diseases” the Guardian Newspaper reported on 4 August 2020. As the world battles to get a handle on COVID, it doesn’t really need competition for headlines. However, if the study is correct, “the growing but largely unrecognized death toll from rising...

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