News Headline
Nature’s bounty: Trees provide services worth $500 million to the world’s megacities
Source
Scroll.in
Publication Date
2017-09-12
Most people probably don’t think of megacities – urban areas with 10 million or more residents – as being part of nature and hence in need of conservation efforts. New research shows that this perception is not just erroneous but counter-productive, however, as trees actually provide ecosystem services worth millions of dollars to the megacities of Earth every year and have the potential to be doing even more.