Keeping the trees green: Alexandra Avenue beside the Yarra. Photo: Eddie Jim
NEW YORK: Drastic measures taken by Melbourne City Council to save the city's heat-ravaged trees have been recognised with a global climate change award.
Melbourne's urban landscapes program beat anti-flooding initiatives in New Orleans and Jakarta to win the C40 & Siemens city climate change leadership award for adaptation and resilience.
Lord mayor Robert Doyle, who visited New York to accept the award, said five years ago Victoria's capital was on the brink of suffering a mass tree die-off.
He said the city's chief planner Rob Adams warned him that soil moisture levels were within a day of dropping to a point at which the trees would not recover.
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