Hi,
You may have seen this announcement on Sunday: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/countryside/8082756/Ministers-plan-huge-sell-off-of-Britains-forests.html 

It’s potentially a catastrophe for the natural world in the UK, already under serious pressure from human activity. They are suggesting selling off half (750,000 acres) of woodland for ‘development’.

Trees and forests, especially ancient woodland, are the last refuge of many native species that are on the brink of extinction. There are suggestions that even the ancient woodland won’t be safe from developers.

Here’s one thing you can do about it. Sign this petition: http://www.petition.co.uk/stop-uk-forestry-destruction 

Here’s another: join the Woodland Trust: http://www.woodlandtrust.org.uk/en/Pages/default.aspx 

This may be the only chance we have to stop this insanity – once they are gone, they’re gone – it’s at least 50 years to regenerate even the semblance of a wood once it’s been cut down.

Attached are a few images for inspiration – these are the kind of places under threat.

Please consider doing everything you can to oppose this nonsense – we are all dependent on the natural world and it needs our support.

Please send this out to as many people as you can.

Best wishes