PROTECT OUR WOODS Campaign

[Fletching]

There are worrying signs that the government might be trying to revive plans to sell off England’s woodlands. We need to move fast to stop them and keep our woods safe for future generations.

The government’s forests panel is getting ready to publish its report next week. Insiders say that the government are trying some last minute manoeuvring to convince the panel to back another sell-off. We’ve got a week to convince them not to cave in to political pressure and stand up for our beautiful woodlands instead.

Please add your name to the petition to the Forests Panel:

Please sign the 38Degrees petition (https://secure.38degrees.org.uk/page/s/keep-our-woods-safe#petition).

Numbers are crucial!

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[Tony1948]

Dune it Steve:campfire:

[Ben Casey]

Yeah I just got an email of them to so I went and signed it :) This goverment should be shot it is as if they are trying to take everything from the normal person so only the rich have anything :(

[biker-bri]

Signed T^

[Thumbcrusher]

duly signed:D

[Basha72]

Done T^

[AL...]

Sorted!!

Cheers
AL

[rich290185]

done!!!!! T^

[rosseveritt]

Signed up. :)

[AdrianRose]

Done and signed. :)

Ade

[jus_young]

Starting to get a bit tedious this one. Obviously the Government couldn't care less what we want as they didn't get the message last time.

Signed again, lets see what happens this time :mad:

[Old Guard]

Ditto T^

[Silverback]

done

[Ben Casey]

Starting to get a bit tedious this one. Obviously the Government couldn't care less what we want as they didn't get the message last time.

Signed again, lets see what happens this time :mad:

Totally agree maybe the gov will keep going till everyone gets fed up then they win :(

[Kernowek Scouser]

Ditto

[moontanboy]

Done

[AdrianRose]

Fantastic news folks!

Just seen on Sky news that the government has decided NOT to sell the nations forest estate.

:) :) :) :)

Ade.

[Ben Casey]

Just heard T^

[Fletching]

Fantastic news folks!

Just seen on Sky news that the government has decided NOT to sell the nations forest estate.

:) :) :) :)

Ade.

Here's the Beeb's take on it (linky) (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-18690019).

[HillBill]

I've signed it already.

But i do reflect on the implications of it.

Keep it with the government who ruined them all in the first place, or sell it to private companies who probably want to protect them anyway, If they are developers, then who is to say they wont be developing the woodlands into......better woodlands?

Got to be careful with media tactics, they all roll to the same agenda.

Best things for the woods atm is to keep people out of em, so they can recover naturally.

I'm a bushcrafter and love the woods, as well as the rest of the countryside. So i'm not an anti this or that. Thats just the reality unfortunately. Bushcrafters tend to take, and not give and a general rule, no matter how good our intentions, we damage that which we love.

I'm not convinced that keeping them for the publics use is in the "woods" best interest. But i do not want to see them built on. If they are going to be built on and the other option is to have them open access for the public, then i'd obviously go for the lesser of two evils.

Best thing for the woods IMO is to educate the population about them, similar to the education in Sweden, teach them respect give them understanding. The problem will then be greatly reduced within 10 years.

In that link above it says this....
In it's final report to ministers, the panel added that woodlands could help "drive a sustainable economic revival".

Does that not worry you? The only way the woods could help drive a sustainable economic revival is to use them as timber and sell it. How else will the government make money from a wood/forest that is sustainable? Economic revival? by not doing anything to them? How exactly?

Privatisation may be the best thing ever happened to them. Yet here we may be signing these petitions so the government could use them to revive the economy. Government = skint = needs money. Private firm = not skint= dont need money.

Not something to have knee jerker on this one chaps.

[Ashley Cawley]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2BcKU33qy0

[AL...]

Saw this on the home page Its a good wee clip and so very true.

Cheers
AL

[jus_young]

This response highlights the fact that the Government still have time to mess things up though.

http://saveourwoods.co.uk/articles/opinion/sow-response-to-forests-report/

Not neccessarily all recommendations from the report will be adopted so there may be a few battles yet to be won. :guns:

[alvino78]

makes perfect sense!!!great clip!T^