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NewsColony National Trust stops cleaning rivers and may have to pause planting trees The National Trust has had to stop cleaning rivers and may have to pause planting trees after losing £200million during the lockdown. The charity has called for ‘renewal over mere recovery’ and urges ministers to prioritise the climate after the pandemic crisis. Hilary McGrady, the trust’s director-general, has run the organisation since 2018 and wrote in an article for the Telegraph: ‘The nation’s attention is rightly on dealing with the immediate and profound shock of Covid-19 to health, social fabric and livelihoods. ‘But governments around the world are turning their thoughts to recovery. We must learn from the last financial crisis and opt for renewal over mere recovery.  ‘Anything else would fail a nation whose citizens have shown that their collaboration and collective action can defeat individualism on a colossal scale.’ The orchard at Lytes Cary Manor and estate in Somerset, w...