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Enshrining goal to plant 30,000 trees each year by 2025 in law could help catalyse wider action on woodland, petition argues

The government is facing pressure to enshrine in law its ambition to plant 30,000 hectares of trees a year by 2025, amid ongoing concerns over the UK's consistent failure to meet existing tree planting...

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