Plan for biggest native forest
I read with interest the article “Plan for biggest native forest” on the BBC news page, the article which is below. Please leave comments and let us know what you think…
Conservationists have bought an 800-acre site to grow the largest continuous native forest in England.
The Woodland Trust will plant more than 600,000 trees on the site near St Albans in Hertfordshire.
The trust says a new native forest of this size and type has never been created in England before, and could take shape within 12 years.
England has lost half its ancient woodland to development, agriculture or conifer woods since the 1930s.
More forest has been created than lost in recent years but this has been mostly non-native conifer trees planted for commercial purposes.
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