Lancashire Volunteers Plant 109,000 Trees in a Year — SkimNews
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- Lancashire Woodland Partnership volunteers planted more than 109,000 trees across Lancashire in the last year, drawing over 1,200 participants from communities, landowners and environmental organisations.
- The new woodlands cover an area equivalent to 154 football pitches, and include 61 new orchards and 17 new micro-forests.
- Across the last two tree-planting seasons combined, the partnership planted almost 500,000 trees and laid more than 27,233 metres of new hedges.
- Lancashire County Councillor Joshua Roberts said the woodlands are "supporting wildlife, helping tackle climate change, improving people's wellbeing."
- The partnership brings together environmental organisations, local authorities, landowners, volunteers and communities to plant trees where they deliver the greatest benefits for wildlife, people and the environment.
- Organisers are now actively encouraging more landowners to get in touch with the partnership to explore creating new woodlands and restoring habitats.
Why it matters: The partnership has scaled to nearly 500,000 trees over two seasons using a coalition model spanning councils, landowners and volunteers — and with organisers publicly recruiting additional landowners, the programme's future pace now depends on how much private land is offered up for new woodland creation.
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