{"id":202439,"date":"2025-12-26T08:04:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-26T08:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/202439\/"},"modified":"2025-12-26T08:04:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T08:04:07","slug":"forest-of-dean-expansion-begins-with-planting-of-120000-trees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/202439\/","title":{"rendered":"Forest of Dean expansion begins with planting of 120,000 trees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In terms of climate change, Mr Brockington said having a variety of species means, if one is susceptible to disease, a significant number of trees will not be lost.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We are looking at western France, because it&#8217;s a very similar climate to what we could expect in our country in 40 to 50 years&#8217; time, which would be when these trees are reaching maturity,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;So we need to be thinking about which trees might be drought susceptible or resilient.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A central area of the site will be left as pasture, which will be grazed by cattle during the winter, and it is hoped all 120,000 trees will be in the ground by the end of March.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In terms of climate change, Mr Brockington said having a variety of species means, if one is susceptible&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":202440,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[273,111,139,69,147],"class_list":{"0":"post-202439","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-environment","9":"tag-new-zealand","10":"tag-newzealand","11":"tag-nz","12":"tag-science"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202439\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}