Things We Heart – April 2016 Edition

We’ve rounded up some of the best tree stuff on the web for your enjoyment. Check out this month’s highlights below:

An Inside Look at Zoo Arboriculture. Whether they’re in-house or contracted, arborists who work in zoos have to be high-level communicators, coordinating work hour by hour with zookeepers. The tree work has to be done safely and without stressing the animals — yet efficiently, so that the animals are not removed from public view any longer than necessary. Read it now!

Ten Strikingly Beautiful Trees That Seem to Have Come from Another World. Bright Side collected photos of some of the most uniquely strange and beautiful trees on the planet. Read it now!

Tree Surgeon Rescued by Prince William Without Realizing It. This is by far our favorite story this month! A Cambridgeshire tree surgeon who was knocked unconscious by a falling branch received a very royal rescue, but had no idea he was being saved by the future kind of England. Read it now!

Man Displays Over 1,000 Stuffed Animals on Tree Outside His Brooklyn Home. For the past seven years, Brooklyn native Eugene Fellner has decorated the cherry tree outside his home in Brooklyn with stuffed animals and cartoon characters. Soon, people began coming by with bags of unwanted stuffed creatures…and his collection grew. Read it now!