Thousands of school children from across the UK will be teaming up with the Woodland Trust to take part in week long tree planting initiatives to help safeguard our native trees and to create a lasting woodland legacies across the UK.
The school children will help to create woodland havens for thousands of species and future generations to enjoy. Not only will they have the excitement of planting the trees for themselves but will also be able to see their trees grow. The Trust hope that these initiatives will inspire today’s youngsters to engage with nature and become environmental custodians of the future.
Tree planting initiatives are taking place across the UK and are courteously part of the Woodland Trust’s ‘Tree For All’ campaign, the biggest ever children’s tree planting operation, which aims to involve one million children in planting twelve million trees across the UK – the equivalent to one tree for every child under the age of sixteen. Already over 4.5 million trees have been planted as part of ‘Tree For All’.
Andy Beer of the Woodland Trust says: “Tree For All’ is a call to action in a time when the protection and planting of new woodland is becoming increasingly important as our natural world comes under siege. Children are losing touch with nature, ‘Tree for All’ is a great opportunity to get children involved with their local environment creating new areas of native woodland and helping them to be the guardians of the future.”
The ‘Tree For All’ campaign has involved over 1,000,000 people, the majority being school children, and has planted over 4.5 million trees across the UK, that’s enough people to fill the Albert Hall over 120 times. In all, approximately 15000 schools, 624 community groups and 100 major partners have been involved so far. In all since the campaign began over 2,020 hectares (5000 acres) of new woodland has been created.
