The Woodland Trust has announced plans to plant 850 acres of land to create the largest new continuous native woodland in England. This will make a huge difference to people and wildlife. Less than 12 percent of the UK is covered with woodland and only 2.4 percent of that is irreplaceable ancient woodland.
You can read much more about this here http://www.woodland-trust.org.uk/appeals
There’s been a huge amount of media coverage on it so unless you have been hiding yourself from the news you will have seen something about this – check out some of the links below:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/jul/29/conservation.wildlife
Posted by Ed Pomfret 
