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Final month, forward of the launch of their newest funding with us, the Carbon Plantations crew joined us for a webinar, the place their crew went into extra element on their revolutionary strategy to sustainable forestry, and spectacular progress at their first plantation, at Euston Property in Suffolk.
If you wish to atone for the dialogue, you possibly can watch the webinar in full right here. There have been additionally questions raised throughout the Q&A which have been answered by the crew in reside chat. You may view a transcript of those further questions beneath.
If you wish to study extra in regards to the Euston Property mission, and the position of sustainable forestry in a Web Zero future, the hyperlinks beneath (additionally talked about throughout the webinar) offer you extra particulars.
- The 2022 Buddies of the Earth report, which seems to be on the position of timber in delivering a greener future.
2. Aerial views of the Euston Property plantation courtesy of drone footage.
For future tasks might pasture, fairly than arable, land be used to keep away from taking out productive land from farming use?
No, the Forestry Fee don’t like new planting on current everlasting pasture (greater than 5 years). Any land that’s species wealthy, lengthy established, numerous and has any designation related, has extra issue in getting approval by means of the Environmental Affect evaluation (EIA) course of.
Why do you employ fencing fairly than hedging?
To maintain out deer, which is prevalent predator (the fencing solely blocks deer and rabbits, not different wildlife)
Present carbon in soil was 0.6–0.9, and 1% natural matter. What are your goal numbers?
Will increase are fairly gradual in natural matter, however we hope for two–3% natural matter
Do the timber shed their leaves within the winter?
Sure, they’re deciduous.
Might crops be planted in between the timber?
This isn’t advisable as it might injury the roots of the timber.
I believe your prospectus mentioned you hoped to seize about 1 tonne carbon per ha per 12 months. Is that this nonetheless the goal?
We expect if we obtain a 0.1% improve in natural matter within the soil we might be in extra of that.
The place did the saplings come from, and which worldwide nation experiences have you ever based mostly your technical, monetary, and advertising evaluation on, please?
Germany, Spain and Italy.
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