Jubilee Woods: 6 Million New Trees – thanks to all those who helped plant them.
Today The Princess Royal planted the last of the 6 million trees
that the Woodland Trust set as its target for the Jubilee Woods Project.
The Princess Royal is the patron of the Jubilee Woods Project.
Last February, the Queen planted twin symbolic oaks at Sandringham, to launch the Jubilee Woods Project which was organised by the Woodland Trust to coincide with the year of the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee.
has only one question for us:
‘What life did you nurture today?’
– Robert Brault –
6 Million trees have been planted for the project, to create 12,000 acres of new woodland – an area three times the size of all London’s Royal Parks.
400 Jubilee Woods of more than an acre in size were created, and 3,500 communities and 40,000 schools were given free packs of trees, including Royal Oak Saplings.
Millions of people, including the Queen and members of the Royal Family took part in the project, generously donating time and money.
The amount of support from the public is a reflection of their concern for the environment – and their love for trees, a sentiment passionately displayed a year earlier when immense public protest stopped the government’s attempts to sell off the national forests to private developers.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/jan/28/england-forest-sell-off-q-and-a
Judi Dench plants a tree for the Woodland Trust’s Jubilee Woods project
