The Wye valley is one of the areas where tree-planting projects have helped to recover a landscape transformed by clearances for farming during the Bronze Age. Photo Credit: Alamy
Environment United KingdomWild, Medieval Times Return to Britain’s Woodlands. And that’s a Good Thing
A new trend called “rewilding” helps Britain’s woodland to return to its medieval level. In Scotland, the woodland is even higher than in medieval times when only 4 percent of the territory was wooded.
The charity Rewilding Britain hopes “to see at least one million hectares in Britain.” For his part, John Tucker, of the Woodland Trust, wishes to see a “threefold interest in current woodland creation levels”.
According to a spokesman, the Department for Environment has pledged to increase on “the 22 million trees we have already planted since 2010”. Landowners have also taken part in the efforts to rewilding the territory by removing livestock and planting native trees.
