‘Every tree counts’: Dutch come up with cunning way to create forests for free | Trees and forests | The Guardian [Shared]

‘Every tree counts’: Dutch come up with cunning way to create forests for free | Trees and forests | The Guardian

In a clearing in the Amsterdamse Bos, a forest on the outskirts of the Dutch capital, is a “tree hub” where hundreds of saplings, among them hazelnut, sweet cherry, field maple, beech, chestnut and ash, are organised by type.

The idea behind it is simple: every day unwanted tree saplings were being cleared and thrown away when those young trees could be carefully collected and transplanted to where they are wanted.

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