I don't always agree with Charles Clover but he is always worth reading. Last weekend he was arguing that there is a lot of unfinished business with forestry - a line not that dissimilar from our own in the RSPB. And although Charles's article in the Sunday Times is pretty robustly written our view is simply that this is an opportunity for further improvement in how our forests and other land are managed by the FC. It seems as though Jonathon Porritt is catching up with this view too in an article also hidden behind Rupert Murdoch's pay-wall in The Times. The Guardian also had another think about the issue. Government would be wrong if they thought that this issue will simply melt away like a Sitka spruce in the fog.
And our joint proposal with other NGOs and buiness for a UK peat levy was picked up in the Irish Times as well as the Telegraph, BBC online and Daily Express.
Think that 300,000 cars on road looks good except when compared to 30 million on the road now if we cut down on them,planes and all the military vehicles we may do some good,suggest what happens with peat mainly outside of U K control.