Small Wales Spends Big Bucks to Protect Nature, Plant Forests

The government of Wales has announced that it will be investing around 5.9 million dollars into a reforestation initiative, as part of its “commitment to tackling climate change”.

“We have a responsibility to future generations to protect nature from the dangers of our changing climate, but a healthy natural environment will also offer protection to our communities from the dangers we ourselves face,” says Welsh First Minister Mark Drakeford, who is leading the new National Forest initiative. “Trees improve air quality, they remove harmful greenhouse gases from the atmosphere, they provide material for construction, they regenerate soil for food, they clean the water in our rivers and they provide a home to all the life that finds shelter in their canopy.”

According to Wales’ low carbon delivery plan, the country is planning to plant at least 2,000 hectares each year with a plan to rise up to 4,000 hectares a year, to get closer to its aim of reducing at least 80 percent of carbon emissions by 2050.