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Perth Now
21 hours ago
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- Perth Now
REVEALED: Number of trees cut down in western suburbs
After cutting down more than 2000 trees across Perth's leafiest suburbs, western suburb councils are now scrambling to secure new funding to help in the fight against invasive beetle species, the polyphagous shot-hole borers (PSHB). Announced last August, the State Governments $7.2 million Tree Recovery program opened up to applicants across the State to help fund replacement planting projects. It comes after Perth's western suburbs were hit with a devastating blow to their tree canopy, with six of the seven local governments experiencing rapid tree deaths due to the invasive beetle species. Your local paper, whenever you want it. According to the Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development, a total of 2308 trees have been removed and 529 pruned — some multiple times — on both private and public land in Perth's western suburbs since June. The City of Nedlands have carried the bulk of this figure, removing a total of 1124 trees across its local government area. Every other western suburb have cut down between 150 to 360 trees, with the Town of Cottesloe removing the least amount of trees at 100. WA Tree Canopy Advocate Sarah Allchurch described the western suburbs as 'ground zero' for the invasive species. WA Tree Canopy Advocate Sarah Allchurch. Credit: WATCA 'At Lake Claremont alone, 170 trees have been lost to PSHB — and that's just one site in one suburb.' 'These kinds of numbers show that Perth's so-called 'leafiest suburbs' are taking a substantial hit to their mature tree populations, which are crucial for reducing urban heat and supporting biodiversity,' she said. Although the newly available funding is a 'welcome response', Ms Allchurch said the State Government was 'late to the party'. 'Councils needed that support last year,' she said. 'If we're serious about stopping the spread and protecting both our urban canopy and agriculture sector, we need a more coordinated, proactive and transparent approach.' All of Perth's western suburb councils — except the Shire of Peppermint Grove — have said they are planning to apply for the tree recovery grant funding. The program provides up to $1,140 per PSHB-affected tree removed, covering the cost of one primary replacement tree, two additional trees, and associated establishment items. Applications for the grant program close on July 7. Successful applicants will be announced in early August.
BBC News
15-04-2025
- Entertainment
- BBC News
Jersey artist Emily Allchurch's work to feature at British Museum
A Jersey-born artist says it is "thrilling" to have her work go on display at the British Museum.A complete series of 12 prints by Emily Allchurch, titled Tokyo Story, has been acquired for the museum's permanent collection. Two pieces will go on display from 1 May - 7 will be displayed as part of the Hiroshige: Artist of the open road exhibition and another will be in the museum's Japanese Allchurch has been a professional artist for 25 years and her chosen medium is digital collages, created from layers of photography, often recreating old prints and paintings. Utagawa Hiroshige was a Japanese artist in the 19th Century and Ms Allchurch said Tokyo Story paid homage to his last work One Hundred Famous Views of Edo, a series of 119 woodblock Allchurch said: "What I love about them is the fact that they depict everyday people. "So, although it's called the famous views - there were famous views - but it was also the places that had meaning to people at that time. "I think that relates to me, speaks to me as an artist because I'm always interested in going beyond the tourist trail and seeing how people really live and I explore that in my work." 'An amazing honour' Ms Allchurch said it was a "thrilling and very special moment" in her career to have her work acquired by the British Museum, especially as original prints by Hiroshige were also under the museum's added the news came "completely out of the blue", although the British Museum had previously shown interest in the series since she first launched it in Allchurch said: "All of their Japanese section had admired my work, these particular works over the years."They just decided that this would be the time to acquire them through their permanent collections so I mean [it's] an amazing honour for me." Ms Allchurch said much of her artwork was themed on "external exploration" which she says came from wanting to "expand her horizons" at age 18 in said she was "incredibly grateful" to the Jersey government for grants that had made it possible for her to pursue her Allchurch added that teachers, Pat Miller and Angela Crowcroft, at Jersey College for Girls had encouraged her to become a professional said: "They always made me feel that it was possible for me to be an artist. "I went to art school thinking that this is something that I can pursue." Five pieces from the Tokyo Story series will also be shown in Jersey in an exhibition opening on 16 May at Private & Public Big in Japan show will include work by other contemporary artists including Takashi Murakami and Damien Hirst.
