• The city of Paris, in partnership with the Council for Architecture, Urban Planning and the Environment of Paris, is launching a platform to list the remarkable trees in the private park of the city of Paris.

  • These trees are distinguished by a characteristic worthy of interest, such as their beauty, their size, or their history.

  • The goal is to protect these trees in case of risk of uprooting, for works for example, through the future bioclimatic PLU of the capital.

The mayor of Paris relies on amateur arborists.

This Monday, Christophe Najdovski, deputy mayor of Paris in charge of the revegetation of public space, green spaces and biodiversity, announced the launch of the Paris Tree Observatory.

The goal ?

Appeal to Parisians to list the remarkable trees of the capital.

"We know that there are nuggets in the private park and we want to protect them", explains Christophe Najdovski.

If the deputy assures that the town hall has a "very good knowledge" of the 500,000 trees in the public domain of Paris (200,000 in the city and 300,000 in the woods of Boulogne and Vincennes), this is not the case of the 100,000 which make up the private park.

Trees "worthy of interest"

"Even this figure is only an estimate", specifies Christophe Najdovski.

Thus, to better protect the remarkable specimens which could be there, the town hall of Paris, in partnership with the Council of architecture, town planning and the environment of Paris (CAUE), launches out in a large inventory through a collaborative and participatory platform on which all Parisians can report the presence of a “worthy of interest” tree.

But what is a remarkable tree?

According to The Observatory of Trees, "beauty, age, size, history, legends, customs, rarity, curiosities" are all elements that identify exceptional trees.

“It can be a tree that stands out for its species, for its monumental size or even because it was planted as part of a friendship between France and another country.

The symbolic significance can be significant,” adds Christophe Najdovski.

There are two labels that validate these specificities.

That of the town hall first, which already recognizes 179 trees in the city, and that of the association ARBRES, which recognizes 15 according to its own criteria.

A real protection against possible uprooting

To help citizens recognize a remarkable tree, the Observatory offers a guide on its website that explains step by step the procedure to follow.

“If a Parisian reports a tree in a condominium, our teams could recognize it and label it.

So that in the next local urban plan, the bioclimatic PLU, we can protect it against projects that could be detrimental to it.

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In his new PLU, presented in October 2021 and still being developed, Emmanuel Grégoire, First Deputy of Anne Hidalgo had indeed mentioned the possibility for the town hall to issue building permits under certain ecological constraints.

"In this way, we could avoid the uprooting of a protected tree as part of the work", illustrates Christophe Najdovski.

The biodiversity assistant recalls that if the town hall is interested in the trees of the private park, it is because the trees are the "best weapon against the warming of temperatures in the city".

True “natural air conditioners” which must be protected according to Christophe Najdovski: “We can continue to plant trees, but it is more effective to protect what already exists.

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