{"id":367177,"date":"2026-03-31T07:39:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T07:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/367177\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T07:39:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T07:39:08","slug":"30000-trees-planted-to-create-isle-of-man-temperate-rainforest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/367177\/","title":{"rendered":"30,000 trees planted to create Isle of Man temperate rainforest"},"content":{"rendered":"

The planting scheme at Creg y Cowin has since been completed two years early, in what was initially a five-year programme.<\/a><\/p>\n

Makepeace-Warne said: “To plant 30,000 trees in three years in incredible work, our volunteers should be really proud of that”.<\/p>\n

He hopes to allow livestock like sheep or cattle onto the land at Creg y Cowin in about 15 years’ time, once the trees are big enough to withstand such animals.<\/p>\n

Cattle were naturally woodland animals, who liked to graze and scratch against trees, therefore avoiding the need for farmers to implement “mechanical” scratching posts, he said.<\/p>\n

“Cattle want to be amongst trees, it does lots of great things like provide shade, it keeps the temperature low on hot days and visa versa on cold days.”<\/p>\n

It could take nearly half a century for the trees to grow fully, with many of the volunteers who planted them not being around to see it.<\/p>\n

Makepeace-Warne said, however, that many of the volunteers had brought their children along to the planting session.<\/p>\n

“I love the idea of them coming back with their kids, when it is a proper woodland, that they can enjoy – that’s a lovely idea,” he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The planting scheme at Creg y Cowin has since been completed two years early, in what was initially…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":367178,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[242,85,46,141],"class_list":{"0":"post-367177","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-environment","9":"tag-il","10":"tag-israel","11":"tag-science"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=367177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367177\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/367178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=367177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=367177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=367177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}