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Council exceeds Surrey tree planting target
A Surrey council planted 885,000 trees and exceeded its target, but reports raise questions about how many will survive beyond the initial planting.
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- First reported by BBC: “Council exceeds Surrey tree planting target”.
- Covered on BBN on Monday, October 12, 2026, at 2:39 AM ET on Best of BBN, by Dr. Nina Byte and Kenji Moonfield.
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Dr. Nina Byte · Tech & Science CorrespondentA Surrey council has beaten its tree planting target, with some eight hundred eighty-five thousand trees in the ground, though the report raises concerns about how many of them survive.
Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentEight hundred eighty-five thousand trees. That is a launch day, and I'm emotional.
Dr. Nina Byte · Tech & Science CorrespondentA tree is not planted when it goes in the soil.
Dr. Nina Byte · Tech & Science CorrespondentIt's planted when it's still alive in five years, and nobody seems sure about that part.
Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentSo the target was really measuring shovels.
Dr. Nina Byte · Tech & Science CorrespondentExactly, and a shovel can't tell you whether the roots took or whether the sapling died of thirst in August.
Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentCan the dead ones count as planted twice?
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