Including the closely related term trees.
… carbon some of the actions will save, for example based on the Council’s energy or fuel bills. However, carbon savings from some of the actions in the wider community are much harder to measure, but we can at least make sure that we are doing what we have said we will do. Likewise, we can measure how many trees have been planted, or how many hectares of grassland have been managed for pollinators…
…[footnoteRef:8]. [8: State of Nature 2023 https://stateofnature.org.uk/infographics/ ] Latest data from the State of Nature 2023 report for Wales shows that since monitoring of 380 Welsh species began in 1994, the numbers of those species has declined on average by 20%, and 42% of Wales’ plant species are found in fewer places than before[footnoteRef:9]. The need for nature recovery in our local area…