{"id":679144,"date":"2026-07-07T20:26:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T20:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/679144\/"},"modified":"2026-07-07T20:26:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T20:26:08","slug":"stormont-first-tree-planting-action-plan-in-ni-launched","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/679144\/","title":{"rendered":"Stormont: First tree planting action plan in NI launched"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The current rate of tree planting in Northern Ireland will have to more than triple by 2032, to get on track for 12% woodland cover by 2050.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The first tree planting action plan for Northern Ireland sets out 10 strategic actions over the next five years.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Environment Minister Andrew Muir said there was &#8220;lots to do&#8221;, including raising awareness of the benefits of tree cover.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">With just 8.6% woodland cover, Northern Ireland is one of the least wooded areas in Europe.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In UK terms, it lags behind Scotland (19%), Wales (15%), England (10%)  and also the Republic of Ireland, which has 11% cover.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The new plan has been designed by the Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs along with the Woodland Trust, representatives of Confederation of Forest Industries (CONFOR), forestry companies, eNGOs, Ulster Farmers&#8217; Union, NI Water, and local councils.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The current rate of tree planting in Northern Ireland will have to more than triple by 2032, to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":679145,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-679144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679144","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=679144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679144\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/679145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=679144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=679144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=679144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}