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TREE BEING
Humanizing the person/tree relationship
Adriana Marques Considering the importance of trees in maintaining or creating healthy and balanced cities, it is urgent to raise awareness among people about the need to take care of trees and recognize the importance of increasing their number in all locations. In this sense, an application will be created to humanize the person/tree relationship. This application involves the knowledge of each tree individually (through a QR code installed on signs placed near the tree or attached to a ring around the trunk) that provides access to a kind of biographical profile of the tree, with all the elements that characterize it. These elements include scientific name, common name, species origin, highly relevant aspects of morphology and physiology, year of planting, identification of the person or institution that planted it (if possible), and aspects of the tree's "life story" whenever known. This application should also promote the planting of new trees by citizens in suitable spaces. In this case, the application allows any citizen who plants a tree to see their name on the QR code of that tree. Any citizen can have their effort recognized after planting a certain number of new trees. The application presupposes the involvement of different entities and institutions such as municipal councils, ICNF (Institute for Nature Conservation and Forests), universities, and polytechnics with a strong focus on botanical education, elementary and secondary schools, student associations, among others. It helps to prevent the undue felling of trees, even by public entities such as municipal councils and ICNF. The individual history of trees gains more weight and becomes known to us.
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