{"id":313567,"date":"2025-12-13T08:28:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-13T08:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/313567\/"},"modified":"2025-12-13T08:28:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T08:28:08","slug":"lanterns-reveal-scale-of-echo-wood-living-trees-artwork","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/313567\/","title":{"rendered":"Lanterns reveal scale of Echo Wood living trees artwork"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Created by the charity Avon Needs Trees, the Lower Chew Forest will be a 420-acre site on Wick Farm containing more than 100,000 new trees and shrubs. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The organisation said it wants to boost woodland cover in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c24n976v3v9o\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the so-called Bristol Avon catchment<\/a>. which it says is just 7.8% compared to the national average of 13.2%, and improve biodiversity<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;ve been making artwork that communicates the issues of the climate crisis and thinks about climate change quite a lot, but this is the first time I&#8217;ve created a project that will physically do something about it,&#8221; said Jerram. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 365 lanterns used to show the shape and scale of the project were created by 12 community groups from the local area, who decorated them with nature-inspired patterns. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s incredible to think that our children will grow with the artwork and that it will still be around when they&#8217;re parents themselves, or even grandparents,&#8221; said Warrick Barton, head teacher of Pensford Primary School where pupils took part in creating the lanterns. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Created by the charity Avon Needs Trees, the Lower Chew Forest will be a 420-acre site on Wick&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":313568,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[6225,6485,6486,1120,96,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-313567","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-artsanddesign","11":"tag-design","12":"tag-entertainment","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom","15":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=313567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313567\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/313568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}