National Trust is planting 90,000 trees

The National Trust is carrying out its largest tree planting project to date, with 90,000 being planted at Wimpole Estate in Cambridgeshire.

It aims to help the conservation charity in its ambition to become net carbon zero by 2030, with planting carried out in a way that leaves space for cereal crops to grow and for rare breed cattle and sheep to graze.

Project manager Jason Sellars said: “Once all the trees are planted we’ll enter a three to five-year period where we’ll leave the trees to establish and grow before introducing livestock.”