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Züri giesst: Adopt a City Tree

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An interactive map of 81,127 Zurich street trees, showing which ones need volunteer watering and adoption.

Why it surfaced

This is a practical piece of civic infrastructure: residents can find trees that need help, locate one of 1,005 water sources, adopt trees, and record their watering. Its data comes from Zurich’s public tree registry, giving a very physical job—keeping young city trees alive—a simple digital coordination layer.

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August 16’s newborn domains include a 240-material perfume organ, a repeatedly saved JPEG cat, a ski tracker designed by a 15-year-old, and a searchable page claiming to contain 148,303 prescription records.

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