A new report suggests that trees standing alone or in small groups provide billions of pounds of benefits to the UK every year.

Such non-woodland trees account for around 20% of the UK’s total and include those in gardens, parks and streets. Due to their ability to remove CO₂ from the air, absorb pollution and cool the environment around them, they are estimated to provide benefits to human health and wellbeing worth as much as £3.8bn each year.