Johannesburg Green
Lining the streets of the city and suburbs of Johannesburg in South Africa in the park’s six million trees. This area seems to be a man-made forests. Only in more than one million trees in parks and on sidewalks, and the remaining found in a suburban park.
City is not always very green. When the Witwatersrand African Highveld grassland plains settlers or as a system has a few trees. But soon the settlers of oak and walnut, among others, the seed planted.
During the mining company to mine the gold rush in 1800, the stage was the most suitable for testing the nursery trees. Northern suburbs where many of the water and then planted blue gums.
This type of oak, pepper trees and other exotic trees and gardens, such as aircraft and line the streets of neighborhoods were given for the families.
As suburban expansion, the streets of invaders such as oak, sycamore, and lined with trees, was familiar with, such as Jacarandas.
Melville Koppies Nature Reserve in 1959 and which provides an understanding of the original image.
Trees are much more important than merely decorative. They also have the original environmental goals. As a natural cooling heat asphalt and wood trees such as the greenhouse effect, controls the rising action. Car exhaust fumes and carbon dioxide absorbed by trees, and often turns into oxygen. Trees also reduce the noise level of the city.
The trees are always a few trees, especially in the suburbs of Johannesburg and the previously disadvantaged areas, are grown. To protect the green outskirts of the city’s 6000 tree, the green revolution began in October 2006 in Johannesburg Soweto Green project. Objective 200 000 trees planted to bring the city into another large urban forest. Soweto, one of the problems of planting trees and sewage treatment system is not deep enough wood to keep the pavement was too narrow. In order to grow more trees in the suburbs of Johannesburg City Parks Department gave residents plant gardens, tree.
Johannesburg City Parks for reforestation projects in various communities to grow their own trees, and the excess material. Nursery Garden City parks and sidewalks to provide for the adequate trees have grown every year around 100,000 saplings.
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