"Probably had the wrong type of tree.But it was years of building alliances within government and with surrounding businesses that helped the community group transform the area.
In Melbourne's west, residents have access to less green space than people in other parts of the city. Councils in Melbourne's west have pledged to plant more trees, like these ones planted by the Friends of Lower Kororoit Creek group."We developed an urban-forest strategy that aims to increase our canopy cover to 30 per cent by 2040," she says.
Cr Lancashire says part of the reason the western suburbs have such low tree canopy figures is because of the geology of the area.
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The 'growth and densification' ideology of the state and federal governments makes saving, let alone increasing, our precious biodiversity and tree canopies in existing suburbs a very difficult assignment. VoteSustainable
it's difficult because people don't want trees on/near their property and new houses are often built to the edge of the block but then people want the benefits associated with it (benefits are pretty good - good on the people in the article)