From Chrissy Philp
Hurrah for your look at the benefits of urban trees, so relevant to my own worries about the loss of city foliage (9 November, p 40). At present, I am disturbed by plans to fell mature poplars on a stretch of the north bank of the river Avon in Bath in the UK to make way for flood prevention measures ahead of proposed housing development.
Last spring, nightingales were singing in these trees, and one tree has been a fishing platform for six cormorants for years. Wandering among these trees feels like being in a forest. Efforts to replace them won’t be enough.
Bath, UK
