Cornwall is to have more than 57,000 new trees planted over the winter.

They are being provided by the Woodland Trust as part of Cornwall Council’s plans for an 8,000-hectare ‘Forest for Cornwall’ spread out around the Duchy.

More than 13,000 trees will given to schools and community groups to plant for free, while residents have already ordered more than 12,000 trees from the Trust’s shop so far.

The figure is completed by the trees that will be planted under the More Woods scheme.

There is still plenty of time to request trees to plant on your land.

Graham Burton, Woodland Trust outreach manager for the south west, said: “Trees are one of our greatest tools in the fight against climate change and Cornwall is really stepping up to meet this challenge.

"The Woodland Trust is pleased to be able to provide these trees to support the Forest for Cornwall and the people of Cornwall who are planting trees in their schools, with community groups and in their gardens.

“These trees will be a vital contribution to our 50 million tree aim – we will need ambitious schemes like this to help us to achieve this target.”

Edwina Hannaford, Cornwall Council’s cabinet member for climate change, said the "extraordinary" number of trees was a "giant step" towards trees covering an extra two per cent of Cornwall's land - the ultimate goal.

She added: “We ask community groups, landowners, town and parish councils, environmental charities, schools and individuals to get involved in the Forest for Cornwall, and help us to really fight back on climate change.”

Forest for Cornwall is a major part of Cornwall’s programme to achieve carbon neutrality by 2030, by transforming woods, parks, farmland, towns, villages and gardens over a decade.

The Woodland Trust is encouraging people to plant trees during autumn as it launches an ambitious aim to plant 50 million trees nationally by 2025.

To buy trees to plant visit shop.woodlandtrust.org.uk/