MIT Researchers at their Sensible City Lab have used Google Street View to monitor urban tree populations have found that Toronto has a 19.5% canopy cover, beating New York City, Paris and London. Let’s make sure all of Toronto’s trees stay healthy!
Check out the MIT project, Treepedia and their map of Toronto’s streets, showing tree canopy coverage: http://senseable.mit.edu/treepedia/cities/toronto
Read the Metro article: http://www.metronews.ca/news/toronto/2017/01/04/torontos-urban-canopy-beats-londons-but-trails-vancouvers.html
Toronto Ravine Revitalization Science 