The Fortingall Yew is 2,000 - 5,000 years old. The Glen Loyne Scots Pine is 550 years old. The Glen Lyon ash is 300 - 400 years old. The Birnam oak and Niel Gow's oak took 300 years to grow, 300 years to live, and will take 300 years to die.
The “natural capital” value of services provided by trees (such as their role in maintaining air and water quality) in the public forest estate in England is £22.5 billion.
Yorkshire Tea is planting a million trees over five years – with a bit of help from the Woodland Trust, UK schoolchildren and Kenyan tea farmers. Learn more at yorkshiretea.co.uk/yorkshire-tree