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    Here in Dover, Earth, this is DDC Climate Change Strategy:

    https://www.dover.gov.uk/Environment/Climate-Change/Climate-Change-Strategy-January-2021-web.pdf

    Plenty of focus on emissions - a tick there - but how about expanding this strategy?

    Concern for the environment is not just about how much CO2 you do or don't pump into the atmosphere.

    How about a concerted strategy to expand woodland cover in DDC's area?

    This would seem to be more needed the further north and east you go within the district, as a general rule. In particular, I'm thinking of Deal and sandwich. There is very limited access to woodland for the people of those two towns. AFAIK Deal is limited to Coldblow Woods, and the little bit of woodland around warmer and Kingsdown, as well as the sadly degraded Willow Woods.

    This last is a prime example of woodland that has simply exceeded its carrying capacity. I gather a similar thing has happened in, for example, Epping Forest, where the number of people using it is more than the ecosystem can realistically handle. This results in among other things tramping down of the woodland floor and hampering the inability of trees and other plants to grow. You can see this in Willow woods at the area next to the crossroads, where there is a "Blair witch project" style treeless area that the last time I looked at some rather sinister looking rope hanging around.

    Go further into the wood and you will notice invasive species, sent a general fetid atmosphere, and probably encounter a load of rubbish and quite possibly a burnt-out car which seems to have taken a mature tree or two with it.

    Tree planting is great, provided you get it right, even setting aside fallow land and allowing nature to do its own thing, eventually culminating in woodland, is fine too. However perhaps most important of all is to ensure that existing woodland areas thrive.

    On top of protecting and expanding woodland cover, how about some tree planting within urban areas? This would have a beneficial effect on people's mental and physical well-being as well as being good for climate change.

    If it exists, that is.

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