Observatoire des droits humains (anglais seulement)

Britain’s wild woods are under threat and we’re running out of time to save them

(Version anglaise seulement)

par Mary Gagen, Professor of Physical Geography, Swansea University

The UK has a strange relationship with its woodlands. Trees and woods form part of the national identity, yet with only about 13% tree cover, it is one of the least wooded countries in Europe.

Ancient woodland – defined as those areas that have been continuously wooded since the year 1600 in England and Wales and 1750 in Scotland – is the UK’s most biodiverse woodland habitat type,…

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