Twmpa Cycles Stump Up For Trees!

As a manufacturer of ash-framed gravel bikes, why wouldn't we?

Wooden-framed bikes are far more sustainable than metal and carbon alternatives, but you still need to use wood from a tree. Ash is fast-growing, and we can build many frames from a single mature tree, but where we can we want to do everything for the environment that we can.

And that is why we are announcing our support for the Stump Up For Trees initiative. Twmpa Cycles is committing to pay SUFT to plant 5 trees for every bicycle we sell.

Stump Up For Trees is an ambitious, developing charity focused on woodland creation and enhancing biodiversity in the Brecon Beacons area of south-east Wales. Twmpa Cycles' local patch. The charity is planting one million trees, principally on marginal agricultural land, using innovative public-private funding initiatives.

Trees give life. It's hard to overstate their benefits. Trees provide wildlife habitat, food, better air and water quality, medicine, shade, sustainable timber, natural flood management and healthier soils. Most notably, in today's urgent debate about climate change, trees also sequester carbon dioxide.

SUFT aims to create a more wooded landscape, including new woods of predominantly native broadleaf species alongside natural regeneration areas. They seek to do so on the agriculturally least productive least biodiverse uplands, to lock up carbon over a long time frame. Twmpa Cycles believe this is a fantastic project and are very happy to lend our support.

The targeted one million trees will capture over 140,000-200,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide over 100 years. The project area is currently sparsely wooded with around 14% covered in fragmented, native woodlands or commercial forestry plantations; just 5% of the area supports semi-natural broadleaf woodland or mixed woodland. Stump Up For Trees is particularly focused on woodland creation on land where bracken dominates, leveraging the organisation's experience in controlling and planting trees on bracken. Wherever the opportunity arises, the charity also aims to provide maximum connectivity between existing pockets of woodland, by creating ecological corridors.