Trees, woodland and forest UK news

• The UK must make big changes to its diets, farming and land use to hit net zero – official climate advisers, theconversation.com (Feb 26, 2025)
• ‘Our community deserves beauty’: one man’s mission to green a UK tree desert, theguardian.com (Feb 20, 2025)

• Japan-style ‘tiny forests’ are taking root in British cities, theconversation.com (Oct 28, 2024)
• Profits from community windfarm to fund a million native trees in Hebrides, theguardian.com (Aug 31, 2024)
• As the world gets hotter, could helping trees migrate northwards protect them?, theguardian.com (Aug 19, 2024)
• Community action and hedgerow success with Hedgerow Heroes phase 3, cpre.org.uk (May 23, 2024)
• A mecca for rewilders: the community-led project restoring Scotland’s southern uplands, theguardian.com (Mar 20, 2024)

• ‘We’ve had untold support’: how farmers are getting creative with tree-planting, positive.news (Dec 12, 2023)

• ‘Darwin’s oak’ to be felled to make way for Shrewsbury bypass, theguardian.com (Nov 01, 2023)

• Rescue mission for UK rainforests’ weird treasures, BBC News (Oct 21, 2023)

• Farmers like me can contribute to a hedge fund for nature at little cost to themselves, theguardian.com (Sep 21, 2023)

• Over 25,000 oppose quarry extension into ancient wood, woodlandtrust.org.uk (Aug 02, 2023) — "Over 25,000 of you joined us in responding to the consultation on the shocking proposal."

• Oaken Wood: The largest destruction of ancient woodland this century, stuartjeffery.net (Jul 17, 2023)

• Cornish farm launches project to triple UK’s temperate rainforest, The Guardian (May 08, 2023)

• Costa Rica restored its ravaged land to health. The rich UK has no excuse for such complete failure, George Monbiot, The Guardian (Apr 21, 2023)

• The Guardian view on Plymouth’s lost trees: an act of vandalism, Editorial, The Guardian (Mar 27, 2023) — The protesters are right. Felling more than 100 trees at night was disrespectful to both local people and nature
• ‘A disgrace’: more than 100 trees cut down in Plymouth despite local opposition, The Guardian (Mar 15, 2023)

• Plymouth residents fight to save trees, Wicked Leeks (Feb 08, 2023)

• The UK needs to plant 120 million trees per year by 2025. Can it be done?, Positive News (Dec 02, 2022)
• Lost rainforest could be revived across 20% of Great Britain, The Guardian (Oct 21, 2022)
• Trees, forests, scrub and hedgerows provide vital sources of habitat, food and shelter for an extraordinary array of wildlife. The problem is we don't have nearly enough of it here in the East, Wild East (Mar 14, 2022) — Hugh Somerleyton, one of WildEast's Founders argues we must strive for a wetter, wilder and woodier landscape for the benefit of all
• More than eight million trees lost this winter in the UK, BBC News (Feb 16, 2022)
• A tussle over tree planting, Wicked Leeks (Feb 04, 2022)

• Britain's lost rainforests could return in post-Brexit plans, Dec 25, 2021...^[1]
• Woods for wildlife and people get £16m funding boost in England, Jun 9, 2021...^[2]
• The 'messy' alternative to tree-planting, May 25, 2021...^[3]
• Local councils can be both arrogant and enabling. They chop down the trees overnight in Doncaster …and ask the citizens to plan their foliage and foresting in Frome, Nov 23, 2020...^[4]
• 'UK's first tiny forest' in Witney helps urban environment. Mar 10, 2020...^[5]
• National Trust unveils woodland expansion and tree planting projects as part of plan to become carbon net zero by 2030...^[6] Jan 9, 2020.

References

• Rewilding will make Britain a rainforest nation again, George Monbiot, Sep 25, 2019...^[1]

'Filled to bursting with trees, woods and nature reserves': greening the Green Belt by Friends of the Earth Innovation team.^[2] Jun 12, 2019.

• Is there a zebra in your community woodland?^[3] Apr 24, 2019.
• A new approach to Sheffield's street trees, Dec 13, 2018...^[4]
• We need to bring back the wildwoods of Britain to fight climate change, Isabella Tree, Nov 26, 2018...^[5]

References

• Tree Trail aims to highlight village's unique species, Jul 18, 2017...^[1]
• Urban trees breathe life into Salford street, May 17, 2017...^[2]
• 200,000 trees to be planted to cut Calder Valley flood risk, Feb 24, 2017...^[3]
• How millions of trees brought a broken landscape back to life, Aug 7, 2016...^[4]
• Scientists use people power to find disease-resistant ash trees, May 15, 2016...^[5]
• Britain to go green with 64m trees to be planted in 10 years, May 1, 2016...^[6]
• Government backs planting of four million trees across UK, January 9, 2014...^[7]

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