I WOULD like to thank everyone for supporting the woodland cemetery project. As for all the critics, picture, if you will, rows of characterless headstones, many crumbling and broken, others unkempt and all squashed into a faceless cemetery or overcrowded churchyard. This is the common perception of a British graveyard -- a very uninspiring place in which to remember loved ones.

Compare that to a woodland cemetery. Through all the changing seasons the beauty of nature is timeless.

With a myriad wildlife making its home in a friendly environment, among the trees on a carpet of old fashioned wild flowers. Now ask yourself which of these places would you choose as your final resting place?

Woodland burials are acknowledged as the largest singular ecological movement in this country. There are approximately 206 woodland burial schemes in the UK and there is approximately one a month being established.

Burial in beautiful countryside, destined to become an area of natural woodland forever, is a popular and established practice. Individual plots become part of the larger landscape, contributing in an emotional and very visible way to the enhancement and preservation of fauna through entirely natural decaying processes.

For further information and comments e-mail me on sabiresa@hotmail.co.uk. I will gladly respond to all correspondence personally, bad or good. Let me have your views.

SABIR ESA