Call for 1m people to join UK's biggest mass tree-planting campaign
 

Volunteers are being urged to do their bit to stop the climate emergency by grabbing a spade and signing up for the biggest mass tree-planting campaign in the UK’s history.

Plots in suitable sites around the country are being prepared for 30 November, when the Big Climate Fightback campaign will start with pledges sought from 1 million people. Local groups are being encouraged to run tree-planting events and councils are being asked for permission to plant trees on their land, or outside schools and other publicly owned properties. Businesses are also being urged to plant trees on their own premises if possible.

People without gardens or the means to plant their own trees are being encouraged to spot potential sites and ask their local council or the landowner for permission to plant.


Grow your own forest: how to plant trees to help save the planet
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By 2025, the Woodland Trust – the charity behind the Big Climate Fightback – hopes to have planted a tree for every person in the country. All of the trees provided by the charity will be native broadleaf varieties, such as oak, birch and hawthorn.

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According to the Committee on Climate Change, the government’s statutory advisers on the climate crisis, the UK should have 1.5bn new trees by 2050 to meet the net zero carbon target, set in line with international scientific warnings on the climate crisis. The government has set a target of 5,000 hectares a year for England alone, but planting rates have fallen well short of that, with last year only 1,420 hectares (3,508 acres) of new woodland planted.
More at https://www.theguardian.com/environm...nting-campaign

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Britain should develop a healthy competition with the Emerald Island in the percentage of wooded land :dance:

You Love to Dream,
Yes more Trees
so long as they are in good safe Zones

Excellent!

Great news and great campaign :love:

Of course but we have land to plant them.

Plant some in your garden Arista, give neighbours a good example :dance:

...this is something that the Woodland Trust have been involved in for many years...free tree packs are given to schools for planting, as many as they’re able to plant...and the whole community tends to get involved with the planting...:love:..

I'm in..I shall post photos...


I've probably planted over 700 plants and trees in my time.

Ooh love this!

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Are you doing it?

Can we expect photos?

Idk. Have to check where is the nearest

But I have 14 trees in my garden :smug: all but one planted by us

Do you have a dog?

Not atm. Our dog died in December 2017

But he never peed on trees if that's what you mean

Aww. Sorry to hear that.

Sounds like a wierd dog though!

How dare you:fist:
He was wonderful

its not very expensive to buy an acre of forest land and then you can do the job properly

Well he did love trees enough not to piss on them so he is..he is wonderful...what was his name?

Are you sure?

I bought a square foot of land for 80 quid once.:shrug:

Caesar. We didnt name him though, he was a rescue dog

You saved him though even when you heard his name......imagine calling your dog caesar...:hehe:..imagine the bloke....I AM CALIGULA, I HAVE CAESAR ON MY LEASH.

I would have walked passed that one. .fair do's though..:blush:

Was he a cross? I always went for cross breeds when j was adopting other people's dogs

He was perro de presa canario
Here called variously canary dog or canary mastiff

Got a.pic?

Post it tomorrow, dont have any on the tablet
Posted it a couple of times here on mtm pets
Is that thread still here or got removed with the regular mtm?

Just post a pic of the breed...I only want to see if they look like they enjoy pissing on a tree.