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Says New York Is Already Fighting Global Warming; Extols New York Effort to Plant One Million Trees
23 October 2007
New York, NY Award-winning tree physiologist, TV host, syndicated science writer and conservation expert Dr. Reese Halter will address the United Nations on Monday October 1 on the importance of urban trees and urban forests in fighting global warming. He will highlight Central Park and Mayor Bloomberg's PlaNYC as prime examples of how trees are a necessity to urban living.
New York City is taking a leading role by adding an additional one million trees to the city streets and parks says Dr Halter. New York City has about 5.2 million trees and within less than a decade it will eclipse 6 million.
More trees absorb more carbon dioxide and help filter the air in the largest city in the United States are excellent at saving homeowners money. They keep homes cooler in the summer and warmer in the winter, Professor Halter.
Dr. Halter is president of the international conservation institute Global Forest Science. He is an award-winning conservation biologist as well as a syndicated science columnist and host of the award-winning PBS show "Reese's Planet" is available for interviews on how trees in Central Park absorb pollution and affect the daily lives of New Yorkers.
New York has some of the finest trees on the planet, and Mayor Bloomberg's ambitious PlaNYC is setting the bar for all other cities to reduce their carbon dioxide emission by 30 percent by 2030 is not only attainable but more trees in New York will transform the Big Apple into the Green Apple, Halter says.
Street trees provide almost $122 million in benefits annually to the city residents. Moreover, by 2012 New York City's 13,000 yellow cabs will be hybrids or smart cars, joining Seattle, Denver, Charlotte, NC, Madison and many other U.S. cities and towns that have signed on to the U.S. Mayors Protection Agreement to reduce America's carbon dioxide emissions.
Over the next decade New York will create 800 new green-streets and reforest over 2,000 acres of parkland.
One of the urban wonders of the world is New York's 840 acres of Central Park with over 25,000 trees. It's America's urban crown jewel providing nature, fresh air and green-space for 1.5 million people on Manhattan and 25 million visitors every year.
Tuscon and Banff-based Global Forest Science ( www.globalforestscience.org) is a forest biology research institute. With an international multi-disciplinary team of 165 scientists, Global Forest Science is a world leader in forest science research and has often been likened to the Red Adair's of the forest biology world. Global Forest Sciences' many victories ranging from legislation to protect the threatened westslope cutthroat trout of British Columbia, protection of the world's largest ant colony, opening an international insect quarantine facility and helping to save New Zealand's multi billion dollar forestry and agriculture industries from the Australian painted apple moth. Global Forest Science is also dedicated to children's ecological education - visit GFAwesome. ( www.gfawesome.org)
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