The Woodland Trust is supporting WWF’s Earth Hour on 28 March. On that Saturday evening at 8.30pm thousands of people, businesses and iconic buildings will turn off their lights for an hour to send a message to the world’s leaders that we want action on climate change.

The 19th December is the closing date for a Welsh Assembly consultation on plans that could help shape the future of our countryside for years to come. But, asks Coed Cadw hasn’t the Welsh Assembly Government missed a trick by failing to recognise that trees and woodland actually offer answers to many of the challenges that we face?

The Government still seems hell bent on pushing ahead with a massive road building programme in England that will cost billions of pounds to complete. This is at the constant expense of the environment too - ‘just a few hectares’ of ecologically valuable land lost here or there, but this ignores the cumulative impact of development across the country.