A group in Thorncliffe Park started walking for better understanding a variety of trees and advocating tree equity.
Thorncliffe Park is one of Toronto First high density Residential neighborhood, built in the 1950s. Today, over 20,000 People live in more than just three square kilometers.
City of Toronto Tree equity score analyst Shows that nine percent of the tree in parts of the neighborhood is low as the canopy cover, and an average of 2.3C hotter compared to the rest of the city, which gives the residents experience the residents Intense heat,
So, what is tree equity? This is the proper distribution of trees in all the neighborhoods. But a 2023 studies Urban forestry suggests that Toronto has an uneven distribution based on socio -economic factors such as income and breed.
Michelle Delane, Project Lead of Thorncliffe Park Urban Farmers, [There are] People who do not have air conditioning, so you know that those people can come out and cool under trees, but we need those types of spaces for people. ,
As a result, Toronto environmental alliance (Tea), along with Thorncliffe Park Urban Farmers and Don Valley West, hosted a tree tour in the neighborhood for environmental action, taught residents about existing trees and empowered them to join local advocacy groups.
A new immigrant Aruna Samanta in East York, who went on a tree walk, says, “I realized that you may feel in different ways.
Emily Alfred, an waste preacher of tea, suggests that all Torontonians can take care of trees in their neighborhood, but it is also important to carry forward the federal level of the municipal, provincial and government to take action.
“To improve urban forests, we really need to look at solutions at every level. We need to plant more trees on private property around rental buildings,” she explains. “We need more trees on public property on the road and in public parks, and we can also see school gardens and other community places.”
While the tea expects a trip to a tree with local groups in other low -income neighborhoods, Thorncliffe Park Urban Farmers Group has continued its work to revive unused lawn space in communal parks and plant more fruit trees in their neighborhoods.