
Reforest Britain
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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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Joined December 2019
RT @philsturgeon: Flood mitigation work is key. More woodland/peat/rewilding on hills and uplands to slow the flow. More beavers throughout….
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RT @ASRainforest: Take 5 minutes & read this inspiring story of how a community group became the owners of Glenan Wood in Argyll. Spoken th….
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RT @ProtectEarthUK: Protect Earth's mission is to save the endangered Black Poplar tree in the UK. With less than 7,000 remaining, action i….
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Woodland Trust Scotland launch reforestation of Gleann Shìldeag estate, Torridon, NW Highlands, where 500,000 mixed native trees will be planted across 346 hectares. Ben Shìldeag currently hosts a pine rainforest and a birch rainforest, across 100 ha.
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RT @JustPlaneNews: This street will now be 10c hotter in climate heat, in floods the houses will suffer, more health problems & absent wild….
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Mulgrave Estate, North Yorks Moors, plans to plant 300,000 trees over 550 acres in one of the largest private woodland creation projects in the North East. Woodland currently makes up 16% of the estate’s 15,000 acres .
thescarboroughnews.co.uk
Mulgrave Estate in the North York Moors is holding a public meeting to discuss Phase One of plans to plant 300,000 trees over 550 acres in a pioneering woodland project.
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RT @ProtectEarthUK: What a weekend! 🌳 1,371 trees planted in two days! Huge shoutout to the landowners, our dedicated crew of 20 volunteers….
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Scottish Water is creating a new 62 acre woodland in Fife, Scotland, on former grazing land, planting 48,000 mixed native broadleaf trees to recreate natural habitat.
fifetoday.co.uk
Scottish Water is set to create a new woodland in Fife, with the site expected to capture up to 16,000 tonnes of carbon.
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4 Tiny Forests to be created across Wrexham by Wrexham Council with @woodsworkcic . The project is funded by the Coetiroedd Bach: Tiny Forests in Wales scheme. Work has started on the first site at Ysgol Bro Alun with the other three planting in autumn.
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The new 'Wild Pine Project' by Trees for LIfe and Woodland Trust Scotland will seek out and protect 'lost' remaining fragments of Scotland's ancient native Caledonian pine forest across Argyll, Highlands and Aberdeenshire. Gaelic place-names offer clues.
bbc.co.uk
Conservationists believe there are still areas of ancient Caledonian forest to be found and protected.
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RT @earth_reforest: Very cool: trees are stalling the effects of global heating in eastern USA, study finds. Vast reforestation has been a….
theguardian.com
Vast reforestation a major reason for ‘warming hole’ across parts of US where temperatures have flatlined or cooled
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The first of 300,000 trees have been planted on Marsden Moor, South Pennines, W. Yorkshire to reduce flooding. 865 acres of woodland will be created in the next 5 years on National Trust and Yorkshire Water Land in the Landscapes for Water Programme.
bbc.co.uk
A £7m conservation programme launches with the aim of combatting the effects of climate change.
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Silverton village, Devon mourns the loss of its beloved 700 year old oak tree 'The Broad Oak' which fell over on 25th January following the recent storms to hit the county.
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" Amid the climate storm, we must act to save our (Scotland's) pinewoods and forests. Native woodland restoration is not a ‘nice to have’, it’s an essential response to the climate emergency playing out now.". by Ariane Burgess MSP, Highlands & Islands.
greens.scot
I was proud to lead a debate celebrating Scotland's national native woodlands, one that led to positive contributions from across the chamber. This is why.
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70,000 acorns were collected from heritage oaks across Yorkshire by volunteers with 50,000 now growing at Leeds City Council's Arium tree nursery. The saplings will used by the @whiteroseforest project aiming to plant 7 million trees by 2025 across Yorks.
bbc.co.uk
Saplings grown from the acorns will be planted in the White Rose Forest.
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Study by @Treeconomics estimates the value of West Midland's 5 million trees at £70 billion . The trees play a vital role, annually storing 57,000 tonnes of carbon, removing 200,000 tonnes of airborne pollutants and absorbing 1.5 million m3 of rainwater.
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Ribble Rivers Trust is to plant 500,000 trees in Lancashire, but has relied on external growers and imported seeds. The Trust is establishing community tree nurseries to become self-sustaining and use seeds from local ancient woodlands as the foundation.
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After 2 year campaign, residents of Birkby, Huddersfield, West Yorkshire are pleased with Forestry Commission order that 473 trees must be replanted before June 2025 and maintained for 10 years, following unauthorised tree clearance on private land
yorkshirepost.co.uk
In a victory for a community in Yorkshire, almost 500 trees must be replanted on a patch of land where a devastating number were previously removed.
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A community group, Friends of Broughtonknowe, formed by a small group of nature loving dog walkers, are set to buy a 140 acre forest in the Scottish Borders for £875,000 . The group has been granted money from the Scottish Land Fund for the buyout .
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RT @JustPlaneNews: We've barely started 2024 and the TREE NEWS ALREADY LOOK GRIM, we already know of threats to 2 mature trees on @Parkland….
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