So this week we have the statement from the Govt's secretary of state for the environment that developers should be allowed to build of ancient woodland as long as they plant replacement trees elsewhere.
What is it with them I have a clear memory of the pledge they would be the greenest government.
Are we going back to the 60's and 70's where we had trees planted in Scotland and the whole thing a tax fiddle or what.
Trees are only one part of a woodland, there are birds, mammals, insects, bacteria, fungi and the list goes on and on. Ancient woodland cannot be moved, translocated, recreated full stop.
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