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00:00We look at the UK as if it's sort of a stable with its environment but we are losing biodiversity in this country and in this county.
00:12You look at all the development, all the houses, all the warehouses, all the roads that are constantly being built.
00:21We are losing a lot of diversity and by trying to plant more woods we are trying to bring some of that diversity back.
00:29The Northampton Woodland Community Volunteers is set up to try and promote woodland and to harvest trees and then redistribute them to make more woodland.
00:41It's a county wide thing because we have people from across the county.
00:45They did a harvest with More Trees Now which is a Dutch group and that Dutch group have been running for four years and it's their methodology that we are actually using here.
00:55So that they dig up trees, they put them into a hub over the winter season and then they redistribute trees.
01:02So today we've got about 25 people digging trees, I think that's a comfortable number.
01:07Those trees are now being stored in a hub and then we will distribute on another day.
01:15These people are just people who are passionate about the environment and local people all bringing along their own spades, gloves and chatting to each other.
01:27It's about a community event, it's about education, it's about then the environment as well.
01:33Locally the tree cover in Northampton is somewhere around 9%.
01:39The tree policy in West Northampton Shear Council is to cover 20% tree cover.
01:46We had a climate hub back in May, May time and out of the climate hub came a discussion about what we could do with regards to the parks.
02:00And we were talking to Mick and he suggested we could do a tree harvest.
02:06Any parish council who's got wooded areas would get involved in this type of thing.
02:11It's something I'm sure we will do again in conjunction with other things related to the climate and environment.
02:19This is just one of those ways of people in their own homes being able to find something to do to help the environment that they can do.
02:28Which doesn't involve donating money, it's just about time and community really.