{"id":602260,"date":"2025-11-29T23:46:17","date_gmt":"2025-11-29T23:46:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/602260\/"},"modified":"2025-11-29T23:46:17","modified_gmt":"2025-11-29T23:46:17","slug":"planting-of-first-new-national-forest-in-decades-starts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/602260\/","title":{"rendered":"Planting of first new national forest in decades starts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">The planting of what will become the UK&#8217;s first new national forest for more than 30 years has begun. <\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 30-hectare Pucklechurch Wood will be part of the UK&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c93nxj5n5g9o\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">new Western Forest<\/a>, stretching across Bristol, Somerset, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">More than 22,000 native trees will be planted between now and March, followed by a further 22,000 the following winter, project organisers say.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The trees are hopefully going to improve the environment for the wildlife and local people, take the carbon out of the air and reduce the chance of flooding,&#8221; said Laura Norton, partnerships manager for the Forest of Avon Trust.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The planting of what will become the UK&#8217;s first new national forest for more than 30 years has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":602261,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8818],"tags":[381,748,393,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-602260","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bristol","8":"tag-bristol","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115635656044500523","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=602260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602260\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/602261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=602260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=602260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=602260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}