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Plea to plant more trees

PUBLISHED: 11:39 19 August 2011 | UPDATED: 08:37 28 March 2014

AUG 19, 2011: The Woodland Trust is calling for landowners of all kinds to plant native trees to increase the number of places wildlife can thrive.

With growing urbanisation, intensification of land use and changes in climate, planting trees is more urgent than ever, it says.
Within just 12 years of planting, woodland will have become home to many species.
MORE:?www.moretreesmoregood.org.uk

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