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The city of Manchester in England has on an ambitious plan to three million trees. The project is the "City of Trees". Project director, Tony Hothersall, that the green venture had three main aims. He said: "One to plant three million trees - a tree for every man, woman and child - over the next 25 years. Next, we very much focused on bringing existing woodland into management because there no point in planting new woodland if you can't what you've got already. Finally, we want to people a lot more in their natural environment - in planting trees, in managing areas, [and] in understanding more about the benefits that trees and woodlands to our society."

Mr Hothersall further the rationale behind the recently-launched environmental project. He said: "Manchester to be a world-class city region. We have a lot of fantastic development going on, but the natural environment to keep up with that." He the initiative will people with trees and the natural world, provide benefits to health and stress. He said: "Woodlands can do great things in terms of air pollution reduction and can to screen for noise pollution. They can also cities and towns more resilient to climate change both in terms of things like reducing the urban heat island effect and also …flooding."