How British publisher Felix Dennis responded to England's centuries of woodland loss with a vision of planting 10 million trees in 1996
- image AI generatedIn 1996, British publisher Felix Dennis planted a small wood near his home in Dorsington, Warwickshire, without any idea that it would grow into one of the largest privately planted forests in England.
- What started as a personal project soon turned into something far bigger.
- Dennis wanted to bring native broadleaf trees back to a landscape that had lost most of its woodland cover, and that first patch of ground became the seed of the Heart of England Forest.
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- image AI generatedIn 1996, British publisher Felix Dennis planted a small wood near his home in Dorsington, Warwickshire, without any idea that it would grow into one of the largest privately planted forests in England.
- What started as a personal project soon turned into something far bigger.
- Dennis wanted to bring native broadleaf trees back to a landscape that had lost most of its woodland cover, and that first patch of ground became the seed of the Heart of England Forest.
Sources: Times of India