Thursday, 7 October 2010

Woodland at a 250 Year peak due to tax breaks

British woodland has returned to the levels of the 1750s with tree cover having more than doubled since the end of the First World War, a United Nations report has shown.

 

Woodland in Britain now stands at 11,200 square miles, 11.8% of the total land area.

 

The growth, attributed in part to the boom because of tax breaks, could even reach the 15% of woodland recorded in England by the Doomsday Book in 1086!

 

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