Privatisation of UK woodlands is happening by the back door. Plans to build luxury holiday cabins, majority-owned by venture capitalists, in public forests put protected wildlife and their habitats at risk: http://www.theguardian.com/environment/blog/2015/feb/17/privatisation-uk-woodlands-happening-by-backdoor
There was a similar article in the Telegraph back in 2011. Between 1997 and 2010 the Forestry Commission sold almost 12,000 hectares of forest: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/earth/environment/8964197/Swathes-of-British-woodland-sold-off.html
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