Professor Patrick Baker

Professor of Silviculture and Forest Ecology, School of Agriculture, Food and Ecosystem Sciences, Faculty of Science, University of Melbourne

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Environment

The great tree census of 2023

After 15 months spent measuring 51,324 trees across 16 hectares, Australia has joined the Forest Global Earth Observatory

Sciences & Technology

Planting trees for the Earth

Campaigners want us to plant 7.8 billion trees to combat climate change. But what then?

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