{"id":16161,"date":"2017-02-21T15:00:27","date_gmt":"2017-02-21T15:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/?p=16161"},"modified":"2017-02-21T15:30:20","modified_gmt":"2017-02-21T15:30:20","slug":"risk-of-canopy-crisis-point-if-more-trees-arent-planted-in-wales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/risk-of-canopy-crisis-point-if-more-trees-arent-planted-in-wales\/","title":{"rendered":"Risk of “canopy crisis point” if more trees aren’t planted in Cardiff"},"content":{"rendered":"

Woodland Trust Cymru have\u00a0called for thousands more trees to be planted in Wales.<\/p>\n

They\u00a0say Wales has far less woodland\u00a0than most other European countries and only 14% of Welsh land is covered by trees.<\/p>\n

The Welsh Government say they want to create one hundred thousand hectares of new woodland by 2030.\u00a0This means\u00a05000 new hectares of woodland need to be planted every year.<\/p>\n

But Woodland Trust Cymru say only around 1,000 trees are being planted each year.<\/p>\n

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The situation in Cardiff is better than the national average, according to the charity. It says the “tree cover rate” in the capital is 16%.<\/p>\n

But Heini Evans from Woodland Trust Cymru says if new trees aren’t planted in Cardiff soon “…there won’t be anything to replace our mature trees when they have to be felled” leading to a “canopy crisis point”.<\/p>\n

She\u00a0says a reduced number of trees will have a negative impact on Cardiff’s environment, and\u00a0will lead to more flooding and pollution.<\/p>\n

Ms \u00a0Evans says Woodland Trust Cymru are concerned about money for future tree planting projects.<\/p>\n

“With the current political climate, Brexit and policies changing, our funding is on the fence.”<\/p>\n

“We are actively pushing for a policy that promotes planting trees in the right places to increase woodland across Wales.”<\/p>\n

The Welsh Government were unavailable for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Woodland Trust Cymru have\u00a0called for thousands more trees to be planted in Wales. They\u00a0say Wales has far less woodland\u00a0than most other European countries and only 14% of Welsh land is covered by trees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":125,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[746,743],"tags":[814,1227,1224,1226,1225,1223,1222],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16161"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/125"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16161"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16233,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16161\/revisions\/16233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}