Eastbrookend Country Park
For National Tree Week this year we are planting just under 2000 native trees and shrubs in the park with help from volunteers and school children. The planting will take place the week of the 22nd November 2021. If you would like to help, please contact rangers@lbbd.gov.uk
Parsloes Park ‘Forest of Thanks’ Phase 2
From January to March 2022, we along with our partners The Conservation Volunteers will be planting phase 2 of the Forest of Thanks at Parsloes Park with a further 8,000 to be planted taking the Forest of Thanks to 40,000 trees planted. If you would like to help, please contact rangers@lbbd.gov.uk
Forest of Thanks Phase 1 Planted 2020
The Barking & Dagenham Ranger Service partnered up with The Conservation Volunteers (TCV) who work across the UK to create healthier and happier communities and SUGi Projects, an international organisation specialising in urban rewilding.
Works on the forest started in October 2020. Planting took place in November – December 2020 during National Tree Week.
Following on from this, there will be opportunities for residents to help further with the planting, sometime in the new year, when it is safe to do so.
This ambitious project will include planting 32,000 native trees and shrubs following a new planting method called Miyawaki, which establishes a forest up to 30 times more dense than conventional tree planting. It also grows 10 times faster than regular forests and is a chemical and fertiliser free forest that sustains itself once established and supports local biodiversity.
Just four years after planting, the ‘Forest of Thanks’ will deliver benefits including:
- absorbing 24,000 kg of carbon: up to 30 times better absorption compared to other tree-planting schemes
- a huge increase in biodiversity
- processing 1,500,000 litres of rain
- improving air quality by reducing polluting floating particulates by up to 10%
- up to 30 times better noise reduction compared to other tree-planting schemes
When completed, the ‘Forest of Thanks’ will be the largest Miyawaki Forest in the UK and Europe.
A garden / meadow of remembrance will be incorporated within the ‘Forest of Thanks’ at a later date to commemorate residents who lost their lives to COVID-19 during the pandemic.