CITY pupils have shown off their green-fingered skills to help improve their local biodiversity.

Pupils from Ysgol Esgob Morgan, in St Asaph, have supported Denbighshire County Council’s schools tree planting project.

Boosting the scheme, pupils helped out by planting 300 trees, including hedgerow, on the school grounds to help local biodiversity flourish.

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Denbighshire County Council is also working alongside other schools to enhance their grounds to improve biodiversity while protecting recreational space.

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A total of approximately 7,500 trees will be planted at schools, which will also increase carbon absorption.

The authority declared a Climate and Ecological Emergency in 2019 and committed to seeking to become a Net Carbon Zero and more Ecologically Positive Council by 2030.

Nearly 5,000 new trees were planted at the beginning of 2022 across Denbighshire creating new woodland sites to help reduce carbon emissions and promote nature’s recovery.

These were in addition to the planting of over 18,000 across the county as part of the council’s Corporate Plan 2017-22 focus on the preservation of the natural environment and also the maintaining and enhancing of biodiversity within Denbighshire.