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Coppicing at Knowlands Farm
Photo: © Fran Rawlinson
Thursday 5 July 2012
Following the CPRE's challenge to the Independent Panel on Forestry to "be ambitions", the Panel issued its report today. In response, Ben Stafford, CPRE’s Head of Campaigns says:
“We congratulate the Panel for setting out an ambitious vision for our woodlands. We particularly welcome its call to increase England’s woodland cover by 50 percent by 2060. Initiating a competition on where to create a second National Forest for England, following in the footsteps of the successful Midlands National Forest, would be one good way to start working towards this ambition.
Gillham Wood, near Bexhill
Photo: © Antony Chammond
Ahead of the final report of the Independent Panel on Forestry expected on Wednesday next week, the Campaign to Protect Rural England has issued a challenge to the Panel to be ambitious in its recommendations, and to the Government to take prompt action to make a positive and progressive vision for England’s woods and forests a reality.
