And he added: “We are going to add 18,000 trees and continue improving the vegetation cover and quality of the Buenos Aires urban forest. During these months we worked on a detailed plan for the remediation and replacement of the specimens that we mainly lost after the storm. from December; and these plantations complement the comprehensive maintenance work that we carry out daily and preventively on all tree specimens.”
This is a 20% increase in relation to the specimens planted in recent years. If compared to the 2023 planting, the increase is 50%.
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With 50% more than last year, the annual tree planting began in the City. (Photo: City of Buenos Aires)
Where tree plantations are carried out in the City of Buenos Aires
The plantations are carried out both in the Buenos Aires green spaces of all the communes and in planters located on public roads. Meanwhile, 7,500 new plants will be added and 6,131 empty plants will be surveyed and, in addition, 4,443 specimens will be added to green spaces.
The species that will be used to replace the lost specimens in the road trees are those defined for each corridor by the current Master Plan. In that sense, for the recomposition of green spaces The same species or similar to those that previously existed will be used.
In this way, the annual plan will have at least 30 different species of trees such as golden ash, crape, photinia, viscote, cow’s foot or ox’s hoof, anacahuita, missionary cedar, pink lapacho, flower plum, jacaranda, liquidambar, tulipanero, plantain, linden, ibirapitá or cane fistula, tipa, American ash, silver maple, among others.
