trees

The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) is consulting interested parties on how to ‘accelerate’ tree planting and improve the management of existing trees and woodlands – the results of which will inform an England Tree Strategy.

The government will plant enough trees to ‘cover an area the size of Birmingham’, according to chancellor Rishi Sunak, as he outlined his first Budget.

Agriculture and environment minister Edwin Poots has announced a programme to plant 18 million trees over the next decade – 10 for every person in Northern Ireland.