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Dear ____, Whenever I walk past you, your beautiful leaves bring a smile to my face.

Whenever I stop in front of you and take a deep breath of fresh air, I appreciate the oxygen that you ____.

Without you and all your ____, we humans wouldn’t be able to get enough oxygen.

By the way, I ____ that a family of birds has made a nest in your branches.

It’s so kind of you to ____ them with a home.

I hope that more people realize how important you and ____ the other trees are to the environment. Have a nice day!

Believe it or not, trees in ____, Australia receive emails like this all the time.

How is it possible that trees have ____ addresses?

And why are people ____ them messages?

The story behind these emails begins with Melbourne’s Urban Forest ____ plan, a response to Australia’s millennium drought.

This drought ____ from the late 1990s to 2010.

By the time it ____, 40 percent of the city’s 77,000 trees were in a state of declining health.

Furthermore, the overall number of ____ was decreasing.

As a result, the amount of shade provided by trees ____ the city, also known as canopy cover, decreased.

The loss of canopy cover is a major threat to urban ____ because it raises temperatures.

Higher temperatures in cities can be dangerous for residents, as they increase the risk of heat ____.

They also lead to a rise in the ____ of air-conditioning.

This speeds up climate ____ by increasing energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions.

Something had to be done to deal with the loss of Melbourne’s ____.

In 2012, the city government announced its Urban Forest ____ plan.

It set the ambitious goal of planting more than 3,000 ____ every year for the next twenty years.

The plan also involved the creation of an online map ____ the Urban Forest Visual.

This interactive ____ shows the location of every single tree in the city’s parks and along its roads.

It uses colors and symbols to indicate each tree’s age and ____.

Also, users can click on a tree to find out its species and even ____ it an email.

At first, the “Email this tree” function ____ a specific purpose.

It was designed to allow people to easily inform council ____ about trees that were damaged or in poor health.

After the ____ was posted online, something unexpected happened.

The trees ____ receiving thousands of emails, but many of them were not reports about damage or poor health.

Instead, they were love letters, poems, greetings, and messages expressing ____ for the trees.

One person wrote, “I love the way the light shines on your leaves and how your ____ hang so low.

It is ____ like you are trying to hug me.”

The tree ____ phenomenon quickly spread, and people all over the world started sending messages.

A message that was sent all the way ____ Russia said,

“When I read about this wonderful project, I was inspired to write to you, even though I ____ thousands of miles away.

Although we are separated by a great distance, we share the same planet and the ____ environment.

Perhaps one day we will ____. Until then, I hope you can stay healthy and strong.”

The global popularity of the tree mail phenomenon reminds us that we are all ____ to nature, and we are all involved in building a more sustainable world.

Without collective action from people across the globe, we would have little hope of saving our planet for ____ generations.

Locally, the tree mail phenomenon has inspired many Melbourne residents to ____ their own ideas about building an environmentally friendly urban environment.

Some have even volunteered to measure trees and monitor animals for nature ____ in the city.

Meanwhile, the Urban Forest Strategy’s tree planting project ____ remained on track,

and canopy cover is predicted to increase from 23 percent in ____ to 40 percent by the year 2040.

Melbourne’s urban forest strategy will help keep the ____ cool.

It will also allow ____ to interact with nature and engage in outdoor activities every day.

As a result, residents will be happier and healthier as they move ____ a greener future.