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I\u2019m sure people throughout the country, and indeed the world, have been greatly saddened to learn of the death of Sherwood Forest\u2019s Major oak (\u2018Most famous tree in the world\u2019: Sherwood Forest\u2019s 1,000-year-old Major oak dies, 18 June). There are steps we might take collectively towards a fitting memorial for this remarkable tree.<\/p>\n
First, we need to insist that our trees are given proper legal protection. The Guardian reported last year that the government has commissioned a report on this topic. One fitting memorial to the Major oak would be to contact your\u00a0MP and urge them to further this issue urgently.<\/p>\n
Another would be to log ancient, veteran or notable trees in your area on the Woodland Trust\u2019s online tree inventory. And a third would be to request a tree preservation order for any trees in your area that enhance your surroundings. Anyone can do this, and a shared national effort in memory of the Major oak could be\u00a0transformative. Have an opinion on anything you\u2019ve read in the Guardian today? Please <\/em><\/strong>email<\/em><\/strong> <\/em><\/strong>us your letter and it will be considered for publication in our <\/em><\/strong>letters<\/em><\/strong> section.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I\u2019m sure people throughout the country, and indeed the world, have been greatly saddened to learn of the death of Sherwood Forest\u2019s Major oak (\u2018Most famous tree in the world\u2019: Sherwood Forest\u2019s 1,000-year-old Major oak dies, 18 June). There are steps we might take collectively towards a fitting memorial for this remarkable tree. First, we<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":50698,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[376,998,1811,21187,3033,7227,3751,724],"class_list":{"0":"post-50697","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-crime-justice","8":"tag-death","9":"tag-forests","10":"tag-major","11":"tag-oak","12":"tag-protection","13":"tag-spur","14":"tag-tree","15":"tag-trees"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50697\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/50698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Prof Rebecca Clifford<\/strong>
Durham University<\/em><\/p>\n