A 100-year vision for Eryri’s trees and woodlands is adopted - Eryri National Park Authority

At its meeting on Wednesday the 30th of April, the Eryri National Park Authority adopted its first ever Tree and Woodland Strategy. It is the result of nearly two years of co-designing with partners, the public and land owners and managers to expand, protect and restore the National Park’s wooded landscape.

Our wooded landscapes have a key role to play in our response to the climate emergency and our nature recovery efforts. As well as acting as carbon stores, improving air quality and mitigating the effects of heavy rainfall, trees provide a safe habitat and food source for a variety of wildlife. As they form ecosystems that play a critical role in carbon sequestration, we have co-designed a 100-year strategy that outlines how we will protect and develop them based on three core principles including safeguarding existing trees, managing our woodlands better, and connecting and expanding our woodlands.

For almost two years the Eryri National Park Authority has been co-designing the Eryri Tree and Woodland Strategy with the support of Coed Cadw. During the development phase, the public and land owners and managers were consulted to ensure an ambitious but deliverable strategy that offered flexibility to take action in a way that didn’t compromise productive land.

Work on compiling a Supplementary Action Plan to steer the efforts to realise the vision is currently underway. It will be a periodic action plan, setting out the actions gathered during a public consultation that took place in the New Year. During the consultation partners outlined how they could contribute to the implementation of the strategy over the coming five years.