Claim: Scotland has a directive to chop down 17 million trees.
Fact-check: Does Scotland have an 'order' to chop down 17 million trees? - Full Fact
Verdict: no such directive appears to exist. on land managed by scotland's forestry and land agency, between 2000 and 2020, an estimated  13.9 million trees were felled for wind farms, but many more were later planted.
Organisation: Full Fact
Author: Grace Rahman
Date published: 2022-08-26T00:00:00