Saplings in prisons and bogs on military ranges: Labour’s plans for nature-friendly state land

The plan, Reynolds says, shows ‘how the government is delivering better outcomes for nature and the environment for future generations’. Photograph: Jill Mead/The Guardian

Tree nurseries could be built at prisons, and military ranges could be turned into heathland or peat bogs as part of an ambitious plan to make government land more nature-friendly, the environment secretary has said.

Speaking before elections this week in which Labour is under pressure from the Green party, Emma Reynolds said such projects showed the government’s intent in restoring natural habitats.