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Forests with Impact: growing trees, changing lives

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James Bickley, the Forestry Commission’s Local Partnership Adviser for the North West and West Midlands, shares details of a new, life changing initiative. One that creates training opportunities and a chance for prisoners to rebuild their future, while boosting UK tree production.

To plant, or not to plant, that is the tree question

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Paul Brannen is the Director of Public Affairs at the Confederation of Timber Industries and author of Timber! How wood can help save the world from climate breakdown (Agenda Publishing 2024). Here he explains the need for home-grown softwood and hardwood timber for an expanding bioeconomy.