3/30/2024 0 Comments A thousand years instrumental![]() The tree planting years was funded by money from the sale of Environment Agency fishing licences and a number of partner organisations including local angling associations, Natural England, Lake District National Park, Rivers trusts and Forestry England. ![]() This momentous achievement supports the new coastal community forest being created in Cumbria announced by Defra, England’s Community Forest and Cumbria County Council on Saturday 27 November at the start of National Tree Week and will help deliver the England Trees Action Plan, published earlier this year. The trees have provided riverbank stabilisation, created shaded areas to boost fish populations, helped to slow the flow of rivers during high rainfall and brought countless benefits for biodiversity and wildlife. Over the last 12 years, the Environment Agency has co-ordinated the planting of over 80 thousand trees across Cumbria. Volunteers sought to plant next 3,000 trees by March 2022.Achievement supports the England Tree Action Plan and helps mark National Tree Week. ![]() ![]() Planting has been completed with the help of pupils from a number of schools and partners across the North of England. ![]()
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