Tree Register of the British Isles
Tree Register of the British Isles (also for short: The Tree Register , TROBI or TROBI ) is a non-profit organization founded in 1988 with headquarters in Wootton (County Bedfordshire in England ), which has set up a computer database (Tree Register) and maintains notable trees in the UK and Ireland . The database currently consists of more than 150,000 trees with the most important details about them.
The patron of the association is Prince Charles .
The computer database was developed based on the handwritten records of the late dendrologist , biologist , forester and specialist author Alan F. Mitchell (November 4, 1922 - August 3, 1995) and also based on older data from about 200 years ago, e.g. B. from reference works , built.
The Tree Register was one of the founders of the Ancient Tree Hunt campaign and a founding member of the European Champion Tree Forum.
See also
- Tree care
- List of oaks in Europe with a trunk circumference of ten meters or more
- List of the thickest oak trees in Germany
- Striking and old tree specimens
literature
- Alan Mitchell: The forest and park trees of Europe: An identification book for dendrologists and nature lovers . Paul Parey, Hamburg / Berlin 1975, ISBN 3-490-05918-2 (translated and edited by Gerd Krüssmann).
- Alan Mitchell: The Tree Register of the British Isles. Hassocks, W. Sussex, OCLC 249025188 .
- Owen Johnson: Champion trees of Britain & Ireland: the tree register handbook. Royal Botanic Gardens, 2011, ISBN 978-1-84246-452-6 . (Published in collaboration with "The Tree Register")
Web links
- TROBI tree register
- The Tree Council
- The Woodland Trust
- Ancient Tree Hunt
- Old Trees in The Netherlands and Western Europe