(8 Aug 2019) UK TREE PLANTING ++REPLAY/ WITH UPDATED SCRIPT++
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Warroch Hill forest, Scotland, UK - 7 August 2019
1. Wide of forester Bruce Spalding planting a tree
2. Mid of Spalding removing tree from satchel
3. Close of Spalding planting sapling
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Bruce Spalding, forester:
"This is called a Canadian planting harness and basically it allows the planter to have different species of trees. We've got three pouches, one either side and one on the back, and also it can double up as a bag for holding fertiliser, for putting some fertiliser on the young trees as well."
5. Various of Spalding planting a tree
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Bruce Spalding, forester:
"I'm replacing dead trees for the last time. This particular part of the plantation is five years old and every year after planting you walk every row basically and replace the dead trees, so this is the last time I'm doing that."
7. Various of Spalding planting trees
8. Various of saplings
9. Wide of Spalding walking past a sapling
10. Wide of Spalding planting a tree
11. Wide of Spalding in field
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Pendreich Forest, Stirling, Scotland, UK - 7 August 2019
12. Various of Mairi Gougeon, Scottish Government's Minister for Rural Affairs and Natural Environment, having photograph taken
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Mairi Gougeon, Scottish Government's Minister for Rural Affairs and Natural Environment:
"We've made this a massive focus for the government because obviously we're facing a climate emergency and we have to try and do everything we can to try and tackle that. And a huge part of that is tree planting because there's so many benefits that come from that. There's the huge amounts of carbon that trees store, but as well as the knock on benefits that that has for the economy. So we've set really ambitious targets over the next few years. So our targets right now are to plant 10,000 hectares a year. Last year we beat that target. We planted 11,200 hectares and to try and put that in context, that is about 22 million trees and that stores about nine and a half tonnes of carbon out of the atmosphere, so it's absolutely incredible but we don't think that that's good enough and we've increased those targets so that by 2025 we hope to be planting 15,000 hectares of new trees every year."
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Warroch Hill Forest, Scotland, UK - 7 August 2019
14. Wide of forest
15. Close of trees
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Edinburgh, Scotland, UK - 6 August 2019
16. Wide of Stuart Goodall, chief executive of Confor forestry organisation, walking
17. SOUNDBITE (English) Stuart Goodall, chief executive of Confor forestry organisation:
"For us tree planting is an extremely important thing. We've got a number of drivers for that. One is, obviously, as forestry people we love the idea of there being more forests with the benefits that they provide. But we've also got a challenge wherein about 20 to 50 years time we've got a shortfall in timber and we know we need to be planting more trees now in order to provide those increased supplies to help fill that falling away of availability. So we've been working with the Scottish Government for some years now to put in place a scheme which pays people who wish to plant trees and to make sure that's attractive and it also operates efficiently. And as a result we've seen a significant increase in tree planting in recent years."
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Warroch Hill Forest, Scotland, UK - 7 August 2019
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