Ancient Woodland

[skyhuck]

So I live in an "ancient" house, I thought it was just old

[Gary Prentice]

So much for 'England's Trees, Woods and Forests' Plan then.

The objectives for 2008-2012 were;

 

NE2 Ancient and native woodland, and veteran

trees:

To conserve ancient woods and veteran trees and

increase the area of native woodland habitat. Ensure

they are resilient to climate change and provide

opportunities for people to enjoy woodland wildlife.

[Joe Pub1ic]

I own a small part of an ancient wood, im currently restoring the PAWs parts of it. I wouldnt sell it for any sort of development. I know many small woodland owners who feel the same way.

[Sylvia]

Can a Local Authority/UKGov compulsorily purchase ancient /ancient semi-natural woodland if it gets in the way of "sustainable"-profitable development?

What vexes me is that there's no statutory protection and that this minister can say primitive stuff like this and loads of people will say oh well that's OK - you can just move the soil somewhere else and plant trees ............

[Adam M]

It would be a shame to lose any mature and most defiantly an ancient woodland.

 

I live in the national forest, which has increased the tree cover from 6% to over 20% with the use of over 8 million trees over the last 20yrs.

 

Don't get me wrong it is good but will still take 50+ years for the trees to get to a decent size.

 

And 500 years to get a decent all-round ecosystem, incorporating soils, fungi, well balanced food webs and everything else.

[rupert w]

I find this most disturbing and IMO sounds like a way for certain types to cash in on woodland they have acquired, probably one or two of the persons proposing the idea, the rich helping the rich(themselves). But what realistically can be done to stop these things going ahead ???

[ArthurBottlesworth]

In 1930's north sea was full of fish

Hemingway and his mates used to come to Scarborough to fish for big tuna

Old fashioned small fishing boats caused no problems

Bottom of north sea must have looked like a jungle with seaweed n stuff

Then they trawled the bottom - essentially ploughed the jungle

Now its all sand ie desert

 

But doyou think any of the small fishermen ever got into House of Lords or do you think the big rich guys who essentially screwed an ocean and got rich got into the House of Lords ?

 

Bottom libe if your willing to screw up anything you'll do well ( financially)

[Mark J]

Sign here folks:

 

https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/save-our-ancient-woodlands?source=facebook-share-button&time=1388923276

[woodyguy]

nearly 6000 sigs is a good start.

[Ruskins Trees]

Bio diversity offsetting an ancient woodland with planting saplings is beyond a joke.

 

The whole principle of offsetting is similar to killing someone and offering to compensate by conceiving a baby.

 

Ancient woodlands are our "keepers of time" they have existed for thousands of years, a timescale we cannot contemplate. Who are we as custodians (not just the arb/environmental/green world) of this to stand by and allow this destruction.

 

7 generations to a century, 70 per thousand years, how can 1 generation allow these woods to be cleared ?