Read more posts about the public sell-off

Judging from interest in posts on my weblog alone, concern about the proposed sell-off the public forest estate continues to build daily.  As I write, the campaigning site 38degrees has 111,886 signatures for their ‘Save our Forests” petition.  Also today, a local campaign in the Forest of Dean held a well-attended public rally with speeches from a number of notable speakers including Jonathon Porritt.

I have provided a lot of links previously to various Government sites and documents.  To strike a balance below is a list of the campaigning sites that have sprung up.

National

• 38degrees website – Save our Forests petition and campaign
• Save our forests website – set up by the Public and Commercial Services Union
• Forestry Commission trade unions website – Save our Forests page
• Save Britain’s forests Facebook page

Local

• Hands off our forest (HOOF) website – Forest of Dean
• Save Cannock Chase website – Cannock Chase
• Save Lakeland’s Forests – Lake District
• Save Sherwood Forest Facebook page – Sherwood Forest
• New Forest Facebook page – has links to 38degrees website.  Perhaps the National Park status has provided sufficient security to quell fears of local people?
• Thetford Forest website – Friends of Thetford Forest

Do let me know if I’ve omitted any and I will add them.

Gabriel Hemery