Grey Box Community
Saving Our Environment
FACT SHEET: Do you Know?
The Grey Box Woodlands were declared endangered in 2001
- Trees improve urban air quality, reduce Co2, reduce energy use in a house, play an important role in urban reduced stormwater run off, reduce noise, provide shade, provide habitat for threatened and endangered species.
- 87% of all pre- European vegetation has been cleared in Mount Lofty Ranges.
- Mature indigenous trees continue to be felled throughout our neighbourhoods destroying habitat an threatening the local extinction of many birds and animals.
- Cutting edge urban planning and design gives the highest priority to the retention of trees.
- Factors contributing to the loss of trees include over-clearance for house site construction.
- Governments and communities have a 'duty of care' to preserve remnant vegetation under zero species loss targets and biodiversity legislation.
- Communities have a role of custodianship to sustainably manage native vegetation and ecosystems on land, which they are responsible.
- What do you want to leave your children?
- Grey Box Woodlands must be protected NOW!
Research by Dr Andrew Miller & Grey Box Community
Image from community of Trees