{"id":1797,"date":"2011-03-31T16:30:27","date_gmt":"2011-03-31T15:30:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sylva.org.uk\/blog\/?p=1797"},"modified":"2011-03-31T16:30:27","modified_gmt":"2011-03-31T15:30:27","slug":"treewatch-website-relaunched","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sylva.org.uk\/treewatch-website-relaunched\/","title":{"rendered":"TreeWatch website relaunched"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.treewatch.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1798\" style=\"border: 0pt none;\" title=\"TreeWatch logo\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sylva.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/TreeWatch_logo2-1024x164.jpg\" alt=\"TreeWatch logo\" width=\"614\" height=\"98\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">We&#8217;ve been busy working on the website for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.treewatch.com\">TreeWatch<\/a> in readiness for its relaunch today.<\/p>\n<p>Many enhancements have been made, building on the success of the pilot during 2010 and listening to feedback we received from early adoptors.\u00a0 We have also implemented a large number of changes in readiness for future planned activities.<\/p>\n<p>We are hopeful of attracting good interest this year, thanks to several articles in the press and in membership magazines.\u00a0 These are the main changes:<\/p>\n<h4>SCIENCE<\/h4>\n<p>Several surveys are now running concurrently.\u00a0 We have also broadened the science to encourage the monitoring of general tree growth and health on a regular basis, in addition to specific scientific surveys.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Last year we ran a survey of the <strong>horse chestnut leaf miner<\/strong>.\u00a0 We are repeating it this year.<\/li>\n<li>We are collaborating with the <a title=\"Royal Horticultural Society\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rhs.org.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Royal Horticultural Society<\/a> to run jointly a <strong>pear rust survey<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>We have introduced an <strong>Annual Survey<\/strong> to encourage all volunteers to monitor the growth and health of their trees on a regular basis.\u00a0 This means that if a volunteer&#8217;s adopted tree is not the subject of a specific scientific survey, there is now an opportunity to collect data regularly.\u00a0 This could prove to be an important archive of data in the future.<\/li>\n<li>We have plans to introduce more surveys during the year.<\/li>\n<li>We will be working closely with our scientific partners, sharing scientific data, analysing it and reporting on findings.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>USER EXPERIENCE<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>The sign up proceedure is even simpler.\u00a0 We ask for just the essential data about a tree: it&#8217;s location, the species, and a memorable name for it.\u00a0 More comprehensive data can be added when a user has signed in.<\/li>\n<li>Users when signed in can now see all their adopted trees listed together and view them on their own map.<\/li>\n<li>All trees adopted in the TreeWatch initiative are visible on the <em>explore <\/em>page where it is possible to filter by species.<\/li>\n<li>We have developed an &#8216;orphan&#8217; tree system where users can release their  trees if they no longer wish to monitor them.\u00a0 This solves an issue  where years of tree data could be potentially lost.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>FUTURE DEVELOPMENT<\/h4>\n<p>In terms of the website, we have plans to add a <em>forum <\/em>to the site so that TreeWatch volunteers can share experiences, ask questions and contribute in new ways to the work of TreeWatch.\u00a0 We will also be improving the <em>international<\/em> functionality of the site.\u00a0 We will be adding a <em>photo <\/em>uploading facility.\u00a0 Ultimately we want to develop a <em>mobile phone app<\/em> but need to fundraise to make this possible.<\/p>\n<p>We are talking to existing and to new partners about developing the TreeWatch initiative in various exciting new ways.<\/p>\n<p>We would love to hear your views on the new website and other comments on the initiative.\u00a0<strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"TreeWatch\" href=\"http:\/\/www.treewatch.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Have you adopted your tree yet?<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The redesigned TreeWatch website has been launched today in readiness for new surveys and other exciting developments.  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\/1797"}],"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=1797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sylva.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1797\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sylva.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sylva.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sylva.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}