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Treesponsibility

Treesponsibility is a not-for-profit community group combining reforestation and ecological restoration with awareness-raising about climate change. We are currently entering Year 11 of a 25 year tree-planting programme in the Upper Calder Valley and plant over 10,000 trees a year, with the help of hundreds of volunteers. We are aiming to create a healthy and resilient landscape of interlinked woodland, hedgerow, moor and meadow which will:- help to minimize our area’s vulnerability to flash flooding; create wildlife corridors in accordance with our local Biodiversity Action plan; and provide a bio-energy source for the future through woodland management and thinning of our new plantations.

We use our practical work as a medium through which we can communicate the urgent need for action on climate change.

Since our inception we have worked with most of the schools in the Upper Calder Valley; published a book (“Sowing the Seeds of Change”); successfully opposed an opencast mine at Public Inquiry (preventing over 500,000 tonnes of CO2emissions); and contributed to local and regional policy consultations.