Reforest Britain promotes the protection and growth of Britain's native tree cover, to combat climate change and improve the natural environment. We need trees!
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Flood mitigation work is key. More woodland/peat/rewilding on hills and uplands to slow the flow. More beavers throughout the watercourse. Every single study proves this will help farmers out, but many have been vehemently against it. Hopefully now we can all progress together.
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Take 5 minutes & read this inspiring story of how a community group became the owners of Glenan Wood in Argyll. Spoken through the eyes of a local resident, it’s a brilliant example of how community empowerment can bring #ScotlandsRainforest back to life buff.ly/43VqeJC
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Protect Earth's mission is to save the endangered Black Poplar tree in the UK. With less than 7,000 remaining, action is needed. Protect Earth has a high success rate in planting Black Poplars. Learn more and together we can make a difference! 🌱 buff.ly/3wsZrYu
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This street will now be 10c hotter in climate heat, in floods the houses will suffer, more health problems & absent wildlife. Most streets in the uk are 1 by 1, incrementally, losing their mature trees for commerce/insurance/ 'disease' claims. Nowhere for birds. Suburban ecocide.
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What a weekend! 🌳 1,371 trees planted in two days! Huge shoutout to the landowners, our dedicated crew of 20 volunteers, and the Protect Earth team for making it happen! 🌱🌎
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Very cool: trees are stalling the effects of global heating in eastern USA, study finds
Vast reforestation has been a major reason for the ‘warming hole’ across parts of US where temperatures have flatlined or cooled
theguardian.com/environment/…
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We've barely started 2024 and the TREE NEWS ALREADY LOOK GRIM, we already know of threats to 2 mature trees on @ParklandWalk , 3 beech trees in Tottenham & more trees @woodburydown Will this year be a felling record @haringeycouncil & @hackneycouncil?? We hope not. @HamandHigh
URGENT: HELP STOP myopic @hackneycouncil chopping down more trees round Woodberry Down - this time reservoirs! Please join ‘Notice This Tree’ group 11.30 tomorrow - Sunday 21st at ground floor cafè Climbing Centre Green Lanes N4. @hackneygazette @TreesforCities @JustPlaneNews RT
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You’ll be happy to know @ProtectEarthUK have planted 935 black poplar over the last 3 years and estimate at least 80% of those are still doing fine. 🙌🏻 – at South West, England
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Protest march against Norwich Western Link road this weekend | Eastern Daily Press edp24.co.uk/news/24051947.pr…
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🌳 Who wants to plant some trees in Welshpool, Powys Jan 27th? We're really low on volunteers, so if you'd like to come and join us from further afield get in touch. There's a train and we can pick you up from the station, or figure out car pooling. protect.earth/events/volunte…
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Wood in rivers is vital for its biodiversity.
This study found a tenfold increase in fish abundance near wood and a 35% increase in invertebrates.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
Here is a thread on why wood in rivers is so important to biodiversity.
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There’s a lot of misconceptions around Ivy. It’s not a parasite, it has its own roots in the soil, and the tree adapts to the weight. You don’t need to cut ivy unless the tree is already dying and could fall on a track, but in that case fell the tree. This is just vandalism – at South West, England
Before and after photos.
Veteran Ivy destroyed at a nature reserve, by those tasked with 'managing' the site.
Ecological vandalism, perpetrated by the very people entrusted with protecting our precious countryside.
#ecology #biodiversity #ecocide
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Summary in @DonnyFreePress of fight to save RoseHill: developer’s appeal due in 3 weeks & a resident takes legal action to quash approved resubmission.The madness of our planning system: refusal & approval of the same application existing simultaneously!
doncasterfreepress.co.uk/new…
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“the quarry extension would result in a greater loss of ancient woodland than the HS2 and Lower Thames Crossing projects combined”
… and yet this quarry seems to get much less press attention than HS2 🤔
Maidstone Council Cabinet remains firm on its decision to not oppose a ragstone quarry's application to Kent CC to extend the quarry into Oaken Wood, an ancient woodland in Barming, despite the full council voting against it and 30,000 public objections
kentonline.co.uk/maidstone/n…
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This project is circa 830 hectares per year for 10 yrs.
@theCCCuk recommendation for land-use change is 30,000 hectares of new woodland per year across UK
That’s about 36 projects of this scale.
In the year to March ‘23 we managed 13,000 hectares.
theccc.org.uk/publication/la…
Huge Scottish tree planting project announced
16.4 million trees are to be planted across 20500 acres of Stirling, Clackmannanshire and Falkirk council areas over the next 10 years under the Forth Climate Forest initiative led by University of Stirling
stir.ac.uk/news/2023/12/univ…
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Bristol City Council have proposed changes to their allotment tenancy agreements & rules. Some of these changes include the potential removal of hedgerows and trees from plots.
Please share your thoughts in their ongoing consultation here 👇
ask.bristol.gov.uk/bristol-a…
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The recently planted longest single run of new #hedging on the farm; over 850 metres! Many thanks to UK taxpayers for their contribution without which it wouldn’t be here. Will try to get it to establish well.
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Weald of Kent 😊🌳
‘Weald’ is Old English for ‘a heavily wooded area’ or ‘a wild or uncultivated usually upland region woodland’
‘Wald’ or Forest in modern German
Our ancient woodland is down there. If you look REALLY closely you can see us 👋
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We have just released a new Woodland in Scotland map viewer. maps.nls.uk/projects/woodlan…
The Library partnered with @ZuluEcosystems, who have extracted a digital layer showing woodland from the mid-19th century Ordnance Survey maps. maps.nls.uk/additions/#155
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Sad week next week, the veteran oak named after @JuliaBradbury in the middle of Melton Fields will be felled by @TSL_Ltd to make way for a huge @AmazonUK @amazon warehouse approved by @East_Riding they are taking cuttings to be cultivated and planting on the public open space 🌱 – at Yorkshire and The Humber, England
