People in Shropshire are being urged to take up the offer of free trees to plant in the coming season.
Shropshire Council is committed to planting 345,000 trees by 2050, though it says it is hoping to bring the target forward.
Shropshire Council secured funding worth £500,000 as part of a joint project led by the Department for Food, Environment and Rural Affairs and the Tree Council, called Trees Outside Woodland, in 2020, and is one of five councils involved in the project, which will run until March 2023. Ian Nellins, Shropshire Council’s cabinet member for climate change, natural assets and the green economy, said: “Shropshire Council is committed to planting 345,000 trees by 2050, though we are hoping to bring the target forward.
“At its launch in 2020 it took just nine hours before all 12,500 trees were allocated. This year there will be 21,000 trees available for the planting season 2022/23.”
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