Profits from community windfarm to fund a million native trees in Hebrides

Jon Macleod has planted 1,200 saplings on his 4 hectare croft at Bragar, on the west coast of Lewis. Photograph: Murdo MacLeod/The Guardian

An ambitious plan to plant at least a million native trees on crofts in the Outer Hebrides has taken root, its organisers say, with more than 200 small new woods sprouting across the islands.

The Western Isles woodland project hopes to reestablish a thriving mosaic of small woods dotted across the islands by using vacant or underused crofts to reforest the Hebrides and promote nature restoration.