This campaign has probably been discussed elsewhere on this forum but this morning I was sent an email with a link to an action centre with posters etc:
http://www.38degrees.org.uk/page/content/save-our-forests-campaign
For those that haven't heard this is in relation to the government planning to privatise our forests.
This is what the Tories said in their manifesto which can be found here:
http://www.conservatives.com/Policy/Manifesto.aspx
Protect habitats
The natural world faces great pressure from
development and climate change. We will
produce a White Paper on protecting the
natural environment, including a focus on
restoring habitat. We will pioneer a new system
of conservation credits to protect habitats.
We will maintain national Green Belt
protection, Areas of Outstanding Natural
Beauty (AONBs), National Parks, Sites
of Special Scientific Interest and other
environmental designations which protect
the character of our country’s landscape.
In addition, we will:
• review the governance arrangements for
National Parks and AONB s to ensure
that they are more accountable to local
communities; and,
• work to reduce litter, which spoils too much
of our countryside and urban environment.
Since 1997, the area of new woodland created
in England each year has more than halved.
In addition to ongoing woodland creation, we
will launch a national tree planting campaign,
planting up to one million new trees in the next
Parliament. We will tackle illegal logging by:
• pressing for financial support from within
a reformed EU budget to be given to
developing countries to halt deforestation;
• pressing for only legally-harvested timber
and timber products to be made available
on the market; and,
• introducing a new criminal offence under
UK law for the import and possession of
illegal timber.
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