{"id":1757,"date":"2011-03-01T20:57:45","date_gmt":"2011-03-01T20:57:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sylva.org.uk\/blog\/?p=1757"},"modified":"2011-03-01T20:57:45","modified_gmt":"2011-03-01T20:57:45","slug":"treewatch-evolves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sylva.org.uk\/treewatch-evolves\/","title":{"rendered":"TreeWatch evolves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our latest initiative <a title=\"TreeWatch\" href=\"http:\/\/www.TreeWatch.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">TreeWatch<\/a> is evolving this month as we start implementing some major developments to the website that lies at the heart of this innovative project.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1759\" style=\"width: 130px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.treewatch.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1759\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-1759\" style=\"margin: 10px; border: 0pt none;\" title=\"TreeWatch\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sylva.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/drop_icon_diseased-200x198.png\" alt=\"TreeWatch\" width=\"120\" height=\"119\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1759\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"> <\/p><\/div>\n<p>We launched <em>TreeWatch <\/em>last year as a small pilot, which allowed us to road test the technology and to build relationships with key partners; notably Earthwatch, Forest Research and The Tree Council.\u00a0 We wanted to develop a unique initiative that would allow any member of the public to &#8216;adopt&#8217; a tree and to monitor its health.\u00a0 For our pilot we ran a survey on the horse chestnut leaf miner, with some 50 trees being adopted by the public across the UK and France using our newly developed dedicated website.<\/p>\n<p>We have since been working behind the scenes to develop an improved version of the all important website.\u00a0 Some existing users may already notice some subtle changes in place.\u00a0 Over the next few weeks the development of more features will have been completed and will be published live on the website.\u00a0 One of the most significant developments is the broadening of the initiative beyond tree health, to include additional surveys and monitoring activities.<\/p>\n<p>We are very excited to have a major new research partner (to be announced) working with us from 2011, and we will be launching a new tree health survey with them in April &#8211; watch this space!\u00a0 We are also talking currently with a number of public and private sector partners to explore other opportunities.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Have you adopted your tree yet?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"TreeWatch\" href=\"http:\/\/www.TreeWatch.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.TreeWatch.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our latest initiative TreeWatch is evolving this month as we start implementing some major developments to the website that lies at the heart of this innovative project. Have you adopted your tree yet?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sylva.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1757"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sylva.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sylva.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sylva.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sylva.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sylva.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1757\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sylva.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sylva.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sylva.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}