Sir – Your feature on wood-burning schemes (Report, January 28) risks misleading well-intentioned people into investment in habitat-burning.

Woodfuel is far from the sustainable, benign resource some imagine. If such things concern you, remember that removing wood from a recovering forest typically depletes the soil of nutrients, depletes the carbon store, depletes the carbon sink, and depletes the protective effect a woodland canopy has on species impacted by heat and drought.

It is illogical to think wildlife is adapted to management – given the short timescales and the needs of the majority of forest species.

Management threatens species – and rewilding, not exploitation, is a solution. A resurgence of woodfuel will make the extinction rate even faster.

Clive Hambler
Cowley