HAVE YOU BOOKED YOUR PLACE ON THE WOODLAND TRUST'S WOODLAND CREATION
CONFERENCE?  THE LOWRY, MANCHESTER -17/18 OCTOBER. Full details on
www.woodland-trust.org.uk/wcc

New woods, new lives, new landscapes
A conference on creating woodland for our future


The UK is one of the least wooded countries in Europe yet forests, trees and
woods are fundamental to our well-being as individuals and as a society.
Historically, support for an expansion of woodland cover had the primary
objective of production of utilisable timber but today there is strong
awareness of the many additional benefits which woodland can provide.
Government forestry policy objectives include a continued expansion of
woodland cover, yet rates of woodland creation are falling year on year.

This conference aims to stimulate a genuine debate about the necessity of
woodland expansion throughout the UK. It aims to:

·         widen appreciation of the environmental and social services that
woodland provides and how further woodland creation is essential to
provision of those services

·         demonstrate how woodland creation is an essential element of an
ecosystem approach to the environment

·         debate how a target for woodland creation might be constructed and
how, in broad terms, it might be delivered.

UK and international speakers will be offering perspectives which will both
inspire and inform the debate.