Biodiversity crisis

I'm am very glad to hear that the Council is looking at planting more native trees. We are in the midst of a climate and nature crisis and planting more native trees can help address both.

The Tree strategy should include / highlight

1. nesting birds and and roosting bats and the legal issues around these.
2. something about developers and development and how it should be required to maintain trees and biodiversity in general on site and also contribute to the Councils targets for planting trees - this includes paying for the labour ad machinery to undertake the work)
3. state that felled trees should be kept on site as deadwood is an important ecological habitat.
4. the erection of bat boxes, bird boxes, owl boxes etc
5. look at linking existing woodlands together - making nature recovery corridors etc as well as making existing woodlands, bigger, better, more connected and more.
6. look at creating community orchards
7. look at improving the tree cover throughout Stirling but starting, in an urban sense, with disadvantaged communities, given that they are likely to be living in disproportionally less green areas, and thus not benefiting from the health and well-being benefits of green infrastructure
8. look at influencing other major landowners in Stirling.