Green push sees 100,000 trees planted in county
Councillor Blake Pain planted a tree at County Hall
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Leicestershire County Council says it has planted more than 100,000 trees over the past year as part of a project to make the county greener.
The authority has pledged to plant 700,000 trees in the coming years - roughly one for every person in the county.
It has also set itself the target of becoming a carbon net zero county by 2045.
The council said Leicestershire was currently one of the UK's least wooded areas.
Only about 6% of the county is currently woodland, compared to a national average of 10%, it said.
The tree-planting push has seen the authority planting trees itself and giving away planting kits to groups and residents.
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- Published13 November 2021
