I was quite impressed with the care being taken to preserve local wildlife in the Olympic Park and leave a green legacy for the East End of London. In the next couple of years work 45 hectares of wildlife habitats are to be made. These are the artistic impressions of what the completed work will look like during and after the games.
So far the ecology team have cleaned up some of the canal system’s waterways, and taken some of the aquatic wildlife to a nearby reserve. Local trees have also been taken to nurseries. ‘London Plane’ trees for example that have been here for up to 100 years and replanting of Crack Willion and White Willow will take place. This is a shot of a tree just south of the Olympic Park site, it is a hybrid willow and the shot is from winter 2009 so there are no leaves, but I think it still looks beautiful.
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1 Britains Olympic Bid - Page 4 - The Environment Site Forums // Mar 2, 2009 at 8:40 am
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2 Anonymous // Mar 2, 2009 at 10:09 am
Do you know much about the energy centre? It has been billed as green and eco-friendly – but I have doubts as to if as per the claims the whole olympic village can be served by this green energy producing centre. Would be interesting to know more details on that.
3 Denis J Vickers // Apr 3, 2011 at 10:00 pm
I cannot see much ‘green’ about these Olympics…where are the green roofs and roof gardens and green walls? Instead dense blocks of atheletes temporary homes. Something akin to the old eastern Europe.
So much opportunity wasted, such a shame!
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