This is your last news to see this monthSubscribe to 4x4, browse without limits for 4 months for only €4 each monthAlready a subscriber?Log inYou have news to see this monthYou have 1 news left to see this monthSubscribe to 4x4, browse without limits for 4 months for only €4 each monthAlready a subscriber?Log inOn Calle Valladolid, 79 trees will be replaced./ Jesus AndradeClimate change is becoming more evident, so the City Council will invest close to 300,000 euros to encourage the city's trees to provide more shade and better adapt to the new temperature and humidity conditions.To this end, it has approved the tree improvement works within the specific management plan for the neighbourhoods.With a tender budget of 295,899 euros, the Consistory intends to plant a total of 770 specimens of species with greater shade capacity and more suitable for the new situation in twenty streets and gardens of Vitoria.With the planting of species more adapted to current circumstances, such as water scarcity, a higher degree of sunshine or high temperatures, the City Council intends to improve the green infrastructure of the streets in which it is going to intervene.For this, new trees will be planted in three spaces and the existing ones will be replaced in the rest of the places by others with greater development than the current ones to achieve better coverage and more shaded surface.This will help reduce the temperature and mitigate the so-called heat island effect that affects urban environments.Another planned action is the extension of the pits and improvement of the soil with the aim of increasing the growth capacity of the trees and improving the land where specimens have grown that in many cases have been in a physiological standstill for years without the ability to prosper, explain municipal sources.The total number of specimens may be higher depending on the possibilities posed by the parks and medians where the intervention is going to take place.Among the species to be planted are maples, elms, lime trees or ash trees, although it is also planned to introduce some lesser-known species such as sophora japonica or zelkova serrata, both of Asian origin.The mayor of Vitoria, Gorka Urtaran, stressed yesterday that the intervention that is going to be carried out is part of "preliminary work that has allowed us to identify the possibilities of comprehensive improvement of the trees in the neighborhoods.""All of this will mean a substantial improvement in the green infrastructure of our neighbourhoods," added the mayor.