More than 10,000 trees planted thanks to a council subsidy project

Shropshire Star

More than 10,000 trees have been planted across the county thanks to Shropshire Council’s subsidised tree scheme. The council offered half-price tree saplings to residents, schools, community groups, town councils, parish councils, charities and businesses. They aim to help plant 345,000 trees by 2030.

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00:00 Hello, I'm Nick Roles. We're here at Priest Forest Nurseries. We're here for a collection

00:10 day for Shropshire Council's tree scheme. Each year we give away trees to members of

00:14 the public, farmers, charities, schools, anyone really, to plant new areas of woodland. This

00:21 year we funded 10,000 half-priced trees, which will greatly help us to reach our target of

00:26 planting 345,000 trees by 2030, reaching net zero and making Shropshire a nicer place to

00:33 live. These are mixed native species mostly that people are planting, so oaks, hazel,

00:40 alder, anything really that will help the native wildlife as well as locking up carbon

00:45 and make the landscape a nicer place. So yeah, we prefer native, we can, yeah.

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