In the 2021-22 planting season, 25,000 seedlings were planted in the Park Forest in and around Budapest. The significant amount alone is complemented by tens of millions more naturally hatched saplings. The planting was thus mainly used to increase the biodiversity of trees and to restructure forests.
The planting of shrubs, for example, plays a particularly important role in this, as it plays an important role in the habitat development of the first generation forests on the Pest side.
Pilisi Parkerdő Zrt. Manages 10 percent of the total area of Budapest, about two thirds of which is managed by Pilisi Parkerdő Zrt.
For many decades, the company has continued to adapt to urban conditions, which is different from traditional forestry practices, and which has now grown into an Urban Forest Development Program – write the zrt.
Today, on the Buda side of the capital, the proportion of tree stands with old trees, sometimes older than 200-250 years old, which is a particularly valuable habitat, is significantly higher than the national average.
According to the forest plan renewed this year in the forests of the capital under our management, the proportion of areas treated with continuous forest cover will be increased from 42 percent to 75 percent.
– said Gábor Reinitz, CEO.
In the 2021-22 season, the most significant tree plantings were on the Buda side in the 12th century and on the Pest side in the 18th century. district