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Long-term investment in skills needed to deliver Action Plan, says RFS
Amid support for the England Trees Action Plan 2021-2024 is a warning that planting millions of trees may not deliver on carbon store promises if there is not a sufficiently skilled and sustainable workforce.
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Trainhugger grants: A new platform for woodland owners
Launched! Trainhugger grants will provide woodland grants and focuses on planting or improving woodland under the expert care of RFS and RSFS members.
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Land devaluation and red tape put owners off planting new woodland
Results of a survey of members reveals support for woodland creation is tempered by concerns over availability of suitable land, loss of land value resulting from change of use to woodland and accessibility of long term grants to support capital investment and maintenance.
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Growing not planting trees key to unlock climate change benefits
Growing not planting trees is the key to unlock climate change benefits climate change, warns the Royal Forestry Society (RFS) as it publishes its Forestry and Climate Change Policy.
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Planting for diversity
Tony Bird is passionate about planting a diverse range of tree species on his estate in Warwickshire after seeing the devastation left by Dutch Elm disease and encountering ash die back and cankers and blight on horse chestnuts.
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