Trees are under assault in Los Angeles.  In a shocking  backward trend, Global Forest Watch calculates that Los Angeles has decreased it's green canopy by 50% from 2000-2023.

 https://www.globalforestwatch.org/dashboards/country/USA/5/19/

This is despite the fact that our temperatures are rising.  The City wants people to walk and use transit, yet shade is not there to protect pedestrians.  

Los Angeles along with 30 other cities worldwide, has committed to the C40 agreement to increase its green canopy and increase environmentally friendly clean construction. The goal is to create a sustainable future! Yet there is no evidence of efforts to achieve this goal.  Los Angeles is filled with mature trees of many varieties gracing its communities, providing a barrier not only to rising heat, but to air pollution, and sound pollution.  Trees, also provide home to federally protected birds, and to many squirrel species and other animals needed for the biodiversity humans depend on.

Private developers are allowed to remove mature trees from properties, replacing the older trees with cement and plastic turf. This is often done illegally, with little to no consequence. This is causing trauma, and environmental degradation to the communities.    https://www.c40.org/accelerators/urban-nature/

Beautiful, mature trees, are replaced with large swaths of climate-destroying cement. To the tax- paying residents of Los Angeles, witnessing neighboring trees being torn down is devastating.

Please sign this petition to ask The City of Los Angeles to protect its climate- protecting trees, require building around significant trees, and enforce protection to stop the devastation of its green canopy. Turning the city into a cement heat trap is not the wish and desire of the residents.

Los Angeles, please protect your irreplaceable trees and stop allowing destructive, climate-degrading construction sites!