Northern Forest Plan (Blog #3)

 Carson Crager 

Professor Boon

College Composition 1

9/27/21

Northern Forest plan for 50 million trees gets £15m funding boost

By: BBC News

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Summery and Response:

    This is article talks about a plan for planting 50 million trees in England. Cities that are going to receive trees include Chester, Liverpool, Sheffield, Manchester, Leeds, and Hull. This plan just received £15m in funding. This money will go towards helping create 1,660 acres of woodland to help this plan grow. So far, there have been around 3 million trees already planted. The article says that the land that is going to receive the trees, is only 8% covered by trees, if I understood that right. This does not sound like a lot. TV presenter George Clarke, who is all for this plan and who is a northerner himself says, "We desperately need more trees up here for both people and wildlife." This project is not only going to make the people happy, but it will make so many animals and plants happy too. The article goes on to say that the overall project is going to cost £500m over a 25 year span and they go on to say that most of the funds are going to need to come from donations or charity. Simon Mageean, who is the Woodlands Trust director goes on to say, "Not only do these new trees have the power to transform people's lives through all the green space they bring in areas of traditionally low tree cover, they are also set to bring a big boost to our fight against climate change and encourage nature recovery." I really thought this was a great quote. It goes to show us that this plan is going to help fight against climate change. I hope other people see this and that it inspires other places to plant more trees. Overall this was a good and interesting article. 

Comments

  1. Jonathan GranadosSeptember 28, 2021 at 11:05 AM

    I think that it's a good to have a plan to plant 50 million trees because of consistent dying rainforest and trees that are getting cut down for paper or fire wood. It's also crazy that there ws about 3.04 trillion trees to only a few billion trees

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  2. Julius CaulderOctober 2, 2021 at 1:29 AM

    I think it is impressive that england was able to pass something for some much money towards environmental presentation. In the US I feel like the government funds more things that have negative effects in our environment. The only time I feel like the US really funds environmental projects is once they gain huge attention from media platforms.

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