250-year-old Cubbington pear named tree of the year after public vote but is set to be felled to make way for transport schemeThere is excellent news and putrid news for the 250-year-old Cubbington pear tree,one of the oldest and largest wild pears in Britain. The excellent news is that it has scooped the Woodland Trust tree of the year title after attracting more than 10000 votes from members of the public. The putrid news is that its hilltop site in Warwickshire is in the proposed path of the HS2 train line.
HS2 planners say that because the tree has a hollow trunk it would be impossible to hasten elsewhere, but promise that it will be propagated from cuttings. Related: Green activists worry about government plans to raise cost of legal challenges Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com