The Environment in Torfaen

Part of 1. Questions to the Minister for Environment, Energy and Rural Affairs – in the Senedd at 2:45 pm on 16 December 2020.

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Photo of Lesley Griffiths Lesley Griffiths Labour 2:45, 16 December 2020

You will have heard me say many times that we have certainly not planted enough trees and that's why we've brought forward several initiatives in the last 12 months, particularly the main one being the national forest, and that will create areas of new woodland to help us restore and maintain some of our irreplaceable ancient woodlands and also to ensure that we are planting more trees to help us mitigate climate change. Again, you will have heard my earlier answers around the agriculture White Paper, published today, and in there you will see the plan to plant more trees. But I absolutely have always said we need to work with our farmers, with our land managers, with NRW to ensure that we significantly increase the number of trees we are planting.