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New research has highlighted that diverse forests store 70% more carbon than forests with only one type of tree. Dr Emily Warner, a biologist from the Nature Based Solutions Initiative at Oxford University who led this research told Newsday that the finding is quite simple: ''Diverse forests store a lot more carbon than single species forests.'' Planting a variety of trees is better for the environment and also provides other benefits she says, including biodiversity for other ecosystems and local people's livelihoods. It achieves all of this much better than single species forests. The study used a global data-set from lots of places around the world. Dr Warner says the really big thing she'd like to see is 'the findings feeding into governments policy and the forestation pledges countries make at the future UN climate conference, COP 28.'' It's all very well for countries to make pledges she said, but it ''has to be done in the right way.'' (Photo shows Sand Martin Wood in Faugh, Cumbria, UK, planted with a broad mix of native trees over six hectares and is managed for wildlife as well as for carbon offset . (Photo by Ashley Cooper/Construction Photography/Avalon/Getty Images)
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