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The UK government has accepted the recommendation of independent advisors and decided to stop its plan to sell state-owned forests. The report also recommended:

• Measurably increase the quantity and quality of access to public and privately owned woodlands;
• Ensure every child “has an element of woodland-based learning”;
• Protect current funding for woodland management and creation;
• Increase England’s woodland cover from 10% to 15% by 2060;
• Create of a charter, and public forest estate should be “held in trust for the nation”.

Read more at BBC News – Public forests must not be sold, say advisers.