[048] THE BIG CLIMATE FIGHTBACK WITH THE WOODLAND TRUST

​DID YOU KNOW?

• The UK is one of Europe's least wooded countries - the average woodland cover for EU countries is 37%. Here in the UK we're lagging massively behind at around 13%
• If we are to limit climate change to below 1.5C by 2050, an extra 2.4 BILLION acres of trees needs to be planted
• Reforesting the world could capture around 2/3 of man-made carbon emissions
• Trees are the ultimate multi-taskers and don't only capture carbon, and improve air quality, they also improve soil structure and help prevent flooding, as well as providing shelter, food and habitat for our ecosystems
• #everytreecounts, so planting a tree in your garden a home, an acorn in a pot, or a new hedge or shrub is as important as bigger mass plantings in managed woodland - we can all get involved!

Trees really are brilliant aren't they?
They just sit there, doing their thing, 'breathing in' carbon dioxide, and 'breathing out' oxygen (you know, that little thing that keeps us alive..!). But we've got fewer and fewer of them, and if we're to avoid runaway climate change, planting trees, and lots of them, is an important part of the jigsaw.

The Woodland Trust is the largest woodland conservation society in the UK, and works to protect our existing woodlands, and plant lots of new trees - they've planted over 43million trees since 1972. In this episode I'm chatting to Carol Honeybun-Kelly from The Woodland Trust, about their work, and specifically about their new campaign - the Big Climate Fightback - which aims to get us all pledging and planting trees in November of this year.

Listen in to find out more about the wonder of trees, and how we can get involved with the Big Climate Fightback.

Enjoy!