[robga]

It’s a shame to see such important data, much submitted by the public to this charity, somewhat locked away. No API or downloadable dataset but to their credit you can apply for access: “The Ancient Tree Inventory dataset is available upon request. If you would like to access the data please get in touch.” I can imagine all sorts of great visualisation and insight within the data.

[pvaldes]

Basic security measure to protect the trees from being stolen for wood thieves, or to excessive tourism leading to the dead of the tree. Both cases had happened before. Looks full of common sense.

[miniwark]

There is also the case of people voluntary killing tree in england too.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jul/30/poisoned...

https://abcnews.go.com/International/famous-sycamore-gap-tre...

[fsloth]

Interesting. Crete has the stupendously ancient olive tree of vouves [0].

It’s as public as trees get. Otoh it’s on the yard of a building complex. You can walk to it, hug it, go hide inside it’s hollow trunk.

I don’t know how much tourism it receives but it seems to be doing fine.

But it’s watched all the time. And if someone wants to cut down illegally some olivet rees there are much less guarded ones to pick from.

Ancient trees are awesome.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olive_tree_of_Vouves

[ascorbic]

There's a map though

[sheepshear]

I've donated information to a few nature databases. I care a lot about which organizations are behind them. They each have their own legitimate reasons for usually light restrictions, which I fully support.

[tokai]

It is not locked away if you can ask for access.