As part of our new ‘Out and About’ page in Our DEEP News we want to encourage conversations about nature and the environment too. Please share your thoughts to or in a dementia dairy audio or film to Steve@myid.org.uk
Despite loving the Outer Hebrides I could never live there because there are so few trees. One of my greatest pleasures in life is being in woods and seeing trees from every window I look out of at home. I send tree teasers to my friend and colleague Philly Hare who does live in the Outer Hebrides from my Welsh nest.
In Our DEEP News Feb/March we mentioned the very sad demise of the Ash tree. I see Oaks around me dying from over worked farm land where the nutrition is just spent in the ground. How can such majestic things be floored by our poor treatment and neglect?
I hear of so many people talking about what being outdoors and nature means to you. What do you do to get you tree fix? Do you feel bereft or even ill without them?
There has been research about hospital patients who have a view of trees from their window have been shown to recover more quickly and to need fewer painkillers than similar patients who couldn’t see trees. Find out more here: https://sustainablehealthcare.org.uk/what-we-do/green-space-health
Martin Robertson said that he is sure he would be ‘in care’ were in not for the great outdoors. Do you think that trees play a part in helping you to stay well?
An excerpt from ‘The Guardian’, shared by George Rook, makes grim reading
“Nearly half of English neighbourhoods ‘have less than 10% tree cover’
Analysis for Friends of the Earth also finds lower-income areas have far fewer trees than wealthier ones.
Nearly half of English neighbourhoods have less than 10% tree cover, with lower-income areas having far fewer trees than wealthier ones, analysis has found.
England’s tree cover is just 12.8%, according to the research by Friends of the Earth, with only 10% made up by woodland – paling in comparison with the EU, where woodland cover stands at 38%.
The government aims to increase tree cover to 16.5% by 2050 under plans to reach net zero and protect biodiversity, but campaigners say this is not sufficient, calling for tree numbers to be doubled.”
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