how is the environment beneficial to us
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How we benefit the environment
Our environment faces serious challenges, ranging from climate change to habitat fragmentation. The Mersey Forest is playing a vital role in the local response.
Creating and managing a well-wooded landscape
Not only is The Mersey Forest helping local authorities, businesses, private landowners and others to create new woodland across the Forest, it is also ensuring that this investment is safeguarded through management plans that will ensure healthy woodlands for decades to come. (NB: If you own or manage land in Merseyside or North Cheshire find out about advice and grants that we may be able to provide).
Green infrastructure planning
The Mersey Forest is widely acknowledged as a key player in the development of the "green infrastructure" approach in the North West. Green infrastructure is the region's life support system – the network of natural environmental components and green and blue spaces that lies within and between the North West's cities, towns and villages which provides multiple social, economic and environmental benefits.