Earth Day 2019: five amazing things trees do for the planet

UncategorizedBy Dom QuinnApril 22, 2020

We at The Tree Council have always known that trees, woods and forests are an essential, irreplaceable part of our world and this Earth Day, we’re celebrating just some of the many things that trees do for the earth! Trees absorb carbon dioxide Trees and forests are mighty carbon stores, helping to capture the carbon…

It’s not just about netting hedges – mismanagement is making our hedgerows slowly disappear completely

UncategorizedBy Holly Chetan-WelshFebruary 25, 2020

Jim Jones, Visiting Scientist at the Hedgelaying In the Ontario Landscape Project at the University of Waterloo and member of UK hedgerows steering group Hedgelink, says the distressing occurrence of netting of hedges by developers is not the only threat to our iconic green wildlife corridors  The hedge, a distinctive but hitherto neglected feature of…