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Bristol Charity Advent 2022, day 18: Avon Needs Trees
Over the last centuries, the Bristol area has lost most of its woodland and is now one of the most deforested parts of the UK.
This leaves our local area vulnerable to the climate crisis, increased flooding and a sharp decline in our local biodiversity.
Planting new woodlands is essential to tackle the climate and nature emergencies. Woodlands take many years to deliver these benefits, and there are increasing worries about whether new woodlands planted will still be here in the decades to come.
This where Avon Needs Trees comes in, a charity based at Future Leap on Gloucester Road (where the Bristol24/7 team also work a couple of days a week).
The best way to guarantee the permanence of new woodlands is to purchase the land on which they are created.
Avon Needs Trees is tackling the climate emergency by fundraising to buy land to plant new, permanent woodlands of well cared-for trees that will store up carbon over time.
New woodlands help natural flood management as well as helping local nature to bounce back.
Avon Needs Trees is a charity charity creating new permanent woodland to fight the climate and ecological emergency – photo: Daisy Brasington
Avon Needs Trees was founded in 2019 by environmentalist Nikki Jones and a small band of volunteers.
Since then, they have had started two projects in Wiltshire, purchasing two sites of 47 acres, planting and caring for 22,000 native trees with the help of hundreds of volunteers from local and surrounding communities.
The charity is currently in the process of buying a third site near Bristol which will be their biggest and most ambitious project yet.
Main photo: Canopy & Stars
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- Dozens of women ‘marry’ trees under threat from new development
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