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With the UK government setting an ambitious target of creating 30,000 hectares of new woodland every year by 2025 (involving a trebling of planting rates in England), there is will be an unavoidable impact on the countryside.
Planting trees is very fashionable these days, and most people think it is good conservation practice. Aside from replacing what our ancestors felled, there is also a halo of virtue because of carbon capture and global warming. Like all such fashions, however, there are specific considerations that can make a big difference to how much good is being done.