The Woodland Trust has taken on a project to map the location of fruit trees across the country using “citizen science.” The effort will call upon observations of residents to locate and catalog the location of fruit trees. The project is underway to understand the impacts of the 90 percent loss of orchards across the country over the last five decades.
Previous data cataloging efforts have determined that Britain’s plants are flowering five days earlier for every one degree C rise in temperature. This “Nature’s Calendar” phenology mapping effort cataloged 405 species of flowering plants across Britain from 1753 forward to produce an index that shows how the natural world is responding to climate change.
Visit the Ancient Tree Hunt website to learn more, and to participate. To date there have been 42,770 tree verified.
