The Los Angeles Parks Foundation has launched an initiative to plant ten “micro-forests” per year in the city’s parks, imitating a similar project in Paris as groups across the world promote forest growth with the aim of improving the natural environment and limiting climate change. “In the spring or summer of 2020, I read about Paris’s micro-forests initiative, and I became very interested in doing something similar in Los Angeles,” said Carolyn Ramsay, executive director of the Los Angeles Parks Foundation, in an interview with The Epoch Times. “A lot of our parks are in areas with too little tree coverage and not enough shade, for a variety of reasons, and I thought it would be a good way to replace the shade cover and trees that have been lost because of insects and diseases, “she continued, citing the shot hole borer as an especially damaging invasive species that has killed at …