New Fife woodland boosts biodiversity and captures carbon

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SCOTTISH WATER

Scottish Water is creating a new woodland in the Lomond Hills, close to its Lomond Hills reservoir complex in Fife to capture up to 16,000 tonnes of carbon and boost biodiversity.

The publicly owned water company has planted 48,000 trees on 25 hectares of former grazing land, helping to improve biodiversity and capture thousands of tonnes of carbon from the atmosphere, with farming being relocated to a more favourable part of its estate. 

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