The letter by the Save England’s Forests campaign said a Bill being debated in Parliament would allow the Government to sell the entire public forest estate to commercial interests on the open market.
It also expressed fears that access to public woodland would become limited and its protection eroded.
The campaigners wrote: ‘We are an island nation yet more people escape to the forest than to the seaside.
‘Our forests nurture countless species of native plants and wildlife. We have relied on them since time immemorial yet we are only a heartbeat in their history.
The signatories include Dame Judi Dench, Annie Lennox, Dame Vivienne Westwood, Ken Livingstone, model Lily Cole and Richard E Grant
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