Part of 2. 1. Questions to the First Minister – in the Senedd at 2:06 pm on 4 July 2017.
Carwyn Jones
Labour
2:06,
4 July 2017
Yes. People welcome woodland. They welcome broadleaf woodland particularly. I remember, in my days as rural affairs Minister, one of the issues that used to exercise people was clear felling and what they saw as the scars that were left on mountainsides as a result. We know that there is more work to be done in terms of increasing the amount of tree cover in Wales, and we are working with NRW to facilitate that.
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