Protecting and restoring our forest land has emerged as a key part of the UK government’s mission to decarbonise - acting as efficient carbon sinks while also boosting biodiversity and even providing natural flood management solutions. Public opinion is also heavily in favour of this climate mitigation strategy, and the UK government has set a target of planting 30,000 new hectares of forestland every year to meet the Committee on Climate Change’s estimation that 1.5bn trees would be needed by 2050 to achieve a net-zero target.