A recent presentation evening at Marlborough Golf Club, in partnership with the Wiltshire Wildlife Trust – Trees for Climate (the Great Western Community Forest project), outlined the plans to enhance the biodiversity of the area through the planting of new indigenous species of tree, hedges and flowering plants. Players, visitors and walkers alike will soon be appreciating the improvements.
The programme of planting will be overseen by the Trees for Climate team. The action will require some diseased trees, such as ash (ash die back) to be removed from the area. The trees to be removed have been identified through a process of an independent tree surveyor report, advice from the Wiltshire Wildlife Trust and an additional tree surveyor who has given a final view on the trees needing removal.
It was felt a ‘belt and braces method’ was important to get it as right as possible from the outset. The process will take place between November 2024 and March 2025. In the Great Western Community Forest’s own words, “This action will create corridors of woodland and better connect the local communities to nature, helping us all to enjoy the benefits of trees and woodland, enhance biodiversity and provide resilience to help reduce the effects of climate change through carbon capture, and mitigating flooding and drought.”
Rick Bodenham, Chair of Greens at Marlborough Golf Club told Marlborough.news: “We are delighted to be working with Wiltshire Wildlife Trust to enhance our local asset. Looking to the future, it’s exciting to be balancing course development whilst increasing the biodiversity of the flora and fauna”.
The maintenance grant lasts fully 15 years and the process will mean that the countryside we live in is enhanced and strengthened for the benefit of all, local and afar.
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