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The Woodland Trust’s Tree For All campaign headed for Southway Community Woodland in Derry this week, with a little support from Northern Ireland Electricity. Pupils from St John’s Primary School are among the first in Northern Ireland to plant trees as part of the new Tree For All initiative.
Ken McCracken, NIE Customer Relations Manager for the Derry area is pleased to continue NIE’s long running partnership with the Woodland Trust. “Creating a sustainable environment for future generations is a key theme for NIE’s support of local initiatives. As part of NIE’s current tree pruning and line maintenance programme, we are committed to supporting community tree planting and other environmental partnerships. This new project is an extension of NIE’s More Power to Trees campaign with the Woodland Trust which has helped develop 13 community woodlands, one in each of NIE’s local districts across Northern Ireland.”
This is one of four events supported by NIE. Other planting will take place at Carnbane Wood in Newry, Burn Walk Wood in Strabane and Mill Race Wood near Enniskillen.
Kaye Coates, Woodland Trust Communications Officer, says today’s tree planting provided a huge boost to the Woodland Trust’s exciting new ‘Tree For All’ campaign. “The Woodland Trust, the UK’s leading woodland conservation charity, launched Tree For All last autumn. It’s the largest children’s tree-planting initiative the UK has ever seen, with a target to plant 12 million trees – that’s one tree for every child under the age of 16. In Northern Ireland we will plant 500,000 trees over the next six years and we want as many people as possible, especially children, to roll their sleeves up and play a part!”
To find out how you and your children might play a part in Tree For All visit www.treeforall.org.uk or contact the Woodland Trust on 028 9127 5787.
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