Trees are amazing. These complicated, wonderful lifeforms have been on our planet for thousands of years and they’re integral to our survival. But how much do you really know about them? There are more than 3 trillion trees on earth – that’s 422 times as many trees as people! But at the beginning of human civilisation there were…
To celebrate the paperback issue of his beautiful book Around The World in 80 Trees, bestselling author and environmentalist Jonathan Drori shares this special extract about some of his favourite trees that can be found in Britain. I grew up near the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, London. My parents, an engineer and a speech therapist,…
CEO Sara Lom shares the thinking behind the new Tree Council brand As a lover of history and green spaces, it’s a great honour to be CEO of an organisation with a history as rich as The Tree Council’s. We were established following the success of Plant a Tree in 73, the 1973 campaign to…
Sara Lom, CEO of The Tree Council, responds to those who say planting new trees won’t help us tackle climate change It’s a well-documented trend that when a new, exciting idea begins to take root in public discourse, a group of cynics immediately set out to prove why it’ll never work. These balloon-bursters often serve…