Eco-friendly Llangunnor's trees take root!
An eco-friendly Carmarthen community is behind a huge tree planting operation, as part of an ambitious drive to offset its carbon footprint. Two thousand trees have been planted in Llangunnor under new moves to help the environment and safeguard it for future generations. The Community Council is behind the scheme which it hopes will help it achieve the status of a zero carbon authority. The project has been widely praised by county sustainability chiefs who are working to educate residents about how they can reduce carbon emissions and help the planet. Research in Llangunnor showed that 2,000 trees needed to be planted to absorb the carbon emissions caused by the street lights the authority is responsible for. The council secured funding under the Tidy Towns scheme, and residents and Coed Cymru got to work planting eight different species in four locations in the community. Trees including wild cherry, silver birch, rowan, oak, field apple and crab apple can now be seen taking root ...