He, sure did, Polyesco, he sure did.
And more importantly each of the 100 children present were also presented with each their own tree, which they are going to plant in various places in Aarhus municipality.
Being children we can rest assured the tree will be planted and that they will check up on their trees for the first crucial months.
IRRC as it is now, around 20% of Denmark is forest or woodland. The aim is to increase that to 30 % within the next decade or so.
That from an all time low in the mid 1600's when only 4 % of DK was forest or woodland.
Aarhus is very blessed in that regards in that there are trees all over the place. Not least inside the inner city blocks and courtyards, but there also forest to the north and south of the city extending almost into downtown Aarhus. Apart from that several forest have been planted around the city within the past 30 years, providing a varied landscape and a
very rich bird life.
Why flap around in the countryside when you can live in the big city, where there is plenty of food and light 24/7?
Of course that means birds of prey are moving in as well and they are not overly concerned with humans. In fact a friend of mine and myself sat on a balcony in Aarhus this summer watching a peregrine, no less, sitting pondering it's next move, without giving a hoot about us watching it.
But what about cats you ask? Well, the Horned Owl is moving closer these years as well. So mis (DK-word for p*ssy) may sneak around at night thinking she's the top predator - she isn't!
There are occasionally outraged stories about a cat-killer on the lose. And there
are cat-killers around, but they are not human...
The oak, Frederik was presented with, is here in DK called a King-Oak (very appropriate) and it actually 15 years old, but because it has spend it's live in very fertile dirt it's the size of an 50 year old oak.
