VOLUNTEERS have dug deep to support Denbighshire’s biodiversity.

Denbighshire’s biodiversity team, countryside officers and volunteers have carried out work to help boost efforts to provide more trees across the county.

The group travelled to Llyn Ochin, near Nercwys, where volunteers rolled up their sleeves to help collect birch saplings.

The council’s local provenance tree nursery at Green Gates Farm, on the edge of St Asaph, aims to produce 5,000 trees and 5,000 native wildflower plants a year, with the hope to expand in the future.

Following the council’s declaration of a climate and ecological emergency in 2019, this project is part of an ongoing commitment to enhancing biodiversity across the county.

Trees grown at the tree nursery will be used to help improve and maintain biodiversity within the county.

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Other trees currently growing at the nursery include alder, oak and black poplar.

Cllr Barry Mellor, Denbighshire's lead member for environment and transport, said: “We are really grateful to the volunteers who helped our biodiversity team and countryside officers collect the saplings which will be a big boost for the tree nursery.

“Volunteers are really helping us make a big difference to biodiversity all across Denbighshire and we are thankful for such continuing fantastic support.”

To find out more about the council’s climate and ecological work, visit https://www.denbighshire.gov.uk/en/environmental-health/climate-and-ecological-change/climate-and-ecological-change.aspx