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The Woodland Trust | UK’s Leading Charity
By Viola | December 8, 2007
The Woodland Trust | UK’s Leading Charity
The Woodland Trust was founded in 1972 and is the UK’s leading woodland conservation charity. By acquiring sites and campaigning for woodland, they aim to conserve, restore and re-establish native woodland to its former glory. The Trust has grown to care and protect over 1,100 sites covering 19,000 hectares (47,000 acres). This includes nationally and internationally important sites as well as small urban and village woods. Nearly 350 of their sites contain ancient woodland, over 6,000 hectares, of which 70 per cent is Ancient semi-natural woodland – land which has never been cleared or replanted by man.
The Woodland Trust has created 3,200 hectares of new native woodland. Their Millennium Commission backed Woods on your Doorstep project has created 200 new community woods in England and Wales and 50 more in Northern Ireland and they are creating one of the largest broadleaved woods in Scotland at the 4087-hectare Glen Finglas Estate in the Trossachs. The Trust owns 20 sites covering 430 hectares (1060 acres) in the National Forest in the Midlands and have sites in all 12 Community Forests across England. In this way we are major contributors to projects which are improving the lives of millions of people.
The Woodland Trust also protects over 110 woodland Sites of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI), the UK’s finest examples of wildlife habitats.
For more information go to:
www.Woodland-Trust.org.uk
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