Interspecies Community. Neighbourhood of Nature in Białystok – a walk with Ryszard Ziemblicki

As part of the project “Interspecies Community. Neighbourhood of Nature in Białystok”, everyone is cordially invited by the “Arsenal” Gallery in Białystok to join a walk with Ryszard Ziemblicki, Head Specialist of the Department of Environmental Protection at the Białystok Municipal Authority.

When: November 26th 2023 (Sunday), 10:00 a.m.
Start line of the walk: corner of Świerkowa and Wiejska streets at the New Town Medical Centre (Wiejska No. 81)
Accessible by public transport: buses Nos. 3, 16, 11, 10, 26, 23, 104
Bus stop: Wiejska/Kręta (531), if approaching from the City Centre
Bust stop: Wiejska/UWB/PK (528)

The walk will be themed around urban forests, with a particular focus on wild bee keeping and the importance of bees.
Admission to the event is free.
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Ryszard Ziemblicki – SELECTED ASPECTS OF FOREST MANAGEMENT IN BIAŁYSTOK’S URBAN SPACE (excerpt):

The urban forestry concept has been recently gaining significance, defined as the art, science and technology of tree and forest resource management in and around urban forest ecosystems, with intent to provide urban communities with psychological, sociological, economic and aesthetic benefits (Miller). Pursuant to the urban forestry concept, the term “forest” is defined much more broadly than in traditional forestry, the definition extending to forests as well as small-scale wood stands, parks, gardens and isolated trees (Konijnendijk).
When discussing green urban areas, so-called pocket forests are noteworthy, small-scale tree clusters planted with the use of a method introduced by Japanese botanist Akira Miyawaki. The method involves high-density (3 trees per square metre) planting of 20 to 40 endemic tree species in small-size areas (ca. 200 m2), all planting evolvement left to forces of nature. Such self-regulation, as it were, gives rise to arboreal micro-habitats, extremely valuable to urban space.

Ryszard Ziemblicki – graduate of the Faculty of Forestry at the University of Life Sciences in Poznań. Completed post-graduate curricula at the Faculty of Forestry of the Warsaw University of Life Sciences, and the Faculty of Law at the University of Białystok. Began his career by joining the District Directorate of State Forests in Olsztyn, climbing the entire career ladder: intern, forestry technologist, assistant forest inspector, deputy forest inspector, forest inspector, deputy director of the Regional Directorate of State Forests in Olsztyn, and director of the Regional Directorate of State Forests in Białystok (the latter from 2008 until 2015). Forest inspector at the State Forests Górowo Iławeckie Inspectorate in the years 2016-2018. Since January 2019, Head Expert of the Department of Environmental Protection at the Białystok Municipal Authority.