{"id":2502,"date":"2018-12-06T14:46:25","date_gmt":"2018-12-06T14:46:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/?p=2502"},"modified":"2018-12-10T17:19:08","modified_gmt":"2018-12-10T17:19:08","slug":"queens-commonwealth-canopy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/?p=2502","title":{"rendered":"Queen&#8217;s Commonwealth Canopy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Queen&#8217;s Commonwealth Canopy is a unique network of forest conservation initiatives involving all 53 countries of the Commonwealth.<\/p>\n<p>As part of this project Sir Michael has planted 5 saplings in the Sevenoaks constituency recently:\u00a0 two Silver Birches on Brittain&#8217;s Common; one Hazel in Swanley Park; and two Rowans near the Bradbourne lakes.<\/p>\n<p>The 5 saplings sent to Sir Michael were donated by the Woodland Trust with the support of Sainsbury&#8217;s and are part of an initiative which has seen over 500 MPs in the UK becoming involved with the Queen&#8217;s Commonwealth Canopy project.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2503\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2503\" style=\"width: 840px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/?attachment_id=2503\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2503\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-2503\" src=\"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Michael-sapling-1-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"Michael planting 2 Roman saplings near the Bradbourne lakes \" width=\"840\" height=\"630\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Michael-sapling-1-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Michael-sapling-1-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Michael-sapling-1-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Michael-sapling-1-1200x900.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2503\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Michael planting 2 Rowan saplings near the Bradbourne lakes<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2504\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2504\" style=\"width: 840px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/?attachment_id=2504\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2504\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-2504\" src=\"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Michael-sapling-2-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"Michael planting a Silver Birch at Brittain's Common \" width=\"840\" height=\"630\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Michael-sapling-2-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Michael-sapling-2-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Michael-sapling-2-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Michael-sapling-2-1200x900.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2504\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Michael planting a Silver Birch at Brittain&#8217;s Common<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Queen&#8217;s Commonwealth Canopy is a unique network of forest conservation initiatives involving all 53 countries of the Commonwealth. As part of this project Sir Michael has planted 5 saplings in the Sevenoaks constituency recently:\u00a0 two Silver Birches on Brittain&#8217;s Common; one Hazel in Swanley Park; and two Rowans near the Bradbourne lakes. The 5 &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/?p=2502\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Queen&#8217;s Commonwealth Canopy&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[900,899,901],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2502"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2502"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2502\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2506,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2502\/revisions\/2506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}