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SUMMARY:What next for UK trees? - Professor David Coomes\, Fitzwilliam Col
 lege 
DTSTART:20210128T180000Z
DTEND:20210128T190000Z
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DESCRIPTION:Just as the UK's ancient woodlands face existential threats fr
 om large infrastructure projects\, such as HS2\, ambitious attempts are be
 ing made to invest in planting schemes\, through the English Tree Strategy
 . Are these activities at odds with each other?\n\nJoin Fitz Fellow\, Prof
 essor David Coomes\, in conversation with the Master\, Baroness Morgan\, o
 n Thursday 28th January\, 6pm\, to learn more.\n\nYou might have heard Dav
 id Coomes\, Professor of Forest Ecology and Conservation\, interviewed on 
 the Today programme in December. He was not convinced by the way that HS2 
 was mitigating ancient woodland destruction: “Translocation just a posh 
 term for moving organisms from one place to another. You might decide to m
 ove rhino from somewhere that they are endangered to another country. But 
 translocation of entire ecosystems\, which is what they are trying to do h
 ere is much\, much more difficult as it is an intricate web of organisms..
 .It’s a little bit like taking a Turner masterpiece\, tearing it up into
  little pieces and moving it somewhere else and framing it and looking at 
 it again. There are semblances of the masterpieces still there but it’s 
 obviously not the same thing anymore.”\n\nBut what is the answer? The En
 glish Tree Strategy\, championed by Lord Goldsmith\, will commit the count
 ry to plan 30\,000ha of new woodlands per year from 2025.  If that happens
 \, will it compensate for the loss of ancient woodlands?  Where should tre
 es be planted\, and which species should be chosen? And who's going to pay
  for it?
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