The number of new trees planted across the UK per year is set to rise to 143 million by 2035 in a massive bid to meet climate targets. Forestry Minister Lord Goldsmith said the new scheme met the Tory manifesto commitment to have 'every new street lined with trees'. Woodland covers 13 per cent of the UK landmass, compared with 31 per cent in France and 30 per cent in Germany. But climate campaign group Friends of the Earth called on the Government to go further by pushing tree cover up to 26 per cent. 'With the scale of the climate crisis that we face the level of ambition needs to be much greater,' environmentalist Danny Gross said.

Source: Daily Mail May 09, 2021 08:03 UTC