Keystone-SDA
Exactly 391 trees were planted during last winter by the services of green spaces (Seve) in the city of Geneva. The municipality compares this figure to the 215 trees which were killed in 2024.
(Keystone-ATS) The objective is to replant three trees for each specimen derived, notes the city of Geneva. For four years, the Seve managed to respect this ratio. Only the last season could not be fully reached, not for lack of will, but for lack of surfaces to be green.
The places likely to house trees in town were already few, but today they “dry up”. Despite this new context, everything will be implemented to find available plots and develop the canopy rate, notes the administrative advisor Alfonso Gomez, quoted in the press release.
The Seve must also take into account, when choosing essences, the effects of climate change. You have to be able for a tree to withstand heat waves and drought. This policy is reflected in the great diversity of trees that were laid down last winter, 121 species and varieties.
In addition, the care given to trees will be the object “of even more increased attention” in the future. The follow -up of young trees will also be longer. Usually, the period of particular attention ran the first three years which according to planting. This period has been extended at five years.
