Buddhists Plant New Woodland On Capital's Doorstep
Members of the biggest chinese Buddhist community in the UK have dug deep to help the woodland Trust create new woodland on 98 acres of formerly arable land within the boundaries of ancient Epping Forest
Members of the Fo Guang Shan Temple, based near Oxford Street in the burstling centre of london, planted 1.500 saplings of native broadleaved speices at Theydon Bois, Essex on Saturday, 27th October. The New Wood has free and open access for all and is within 15 minute's walk of Theydon Bois tube station on the Centeral Line, putting it on the capital's doorstep. More than 170 members of the budhist community and the wider public joined the first major tree-planting event on the Thetdon Bois site.
Saturday's Planting included saplings of oak, ash, field maple, hazel, hornbeam, crab apple, grey swallow, aspen ...