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The deputy leader of Portsmouth City Council, Darren Sanders, said the funding was most welcome as not everyone in the city had access to nature on their doorstep. "Portsmouth wasn't built with nature in mind," he said. "Parts of the city don't have any green spaces at all. We want to try and change that. "We want to double the number of trees in the city. It's about 9% at the moment, we want it to be 15%. "We want a greener city, more trees, more people who understand the importance of nature. "The ability to link nature to people's health and to people's mental health and people's mental well-being, so that we can encourage our children to understand that nature matters and they can make nature important because they're going to be here long after we're gone."
