The trial follows Defra’s 25-year Environment Plan, which outlined an ambition to increase woodland cover in England and the Government’s commitment to increase tree planting across the UK to 30,000 hectares per year by 2025. To help reach these targets, the recently announced £640 million Nature for Climate Fund will invest in tree-planting alongside other environmental restoration over the next five years.

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Vodafone has partnered with Defra and Forest Research to investigate how Narrowband-IoT (NB-IoT) technology can help monitor tree growth and support research into the role of trees in tackling climate change.