Estimations suggest around 15.7 million trees have been cut down since 2000, the equivalent of 1,700 per day.
Scots have been left in “astonishment” after it was revealed the SNP cut down millions of trees to build wind farms.
Rural affairs secretary Mairi Gougeon admitted the party had felled nearly 16 million trees to make room for the new project as part of the SNP’s plans to make Scotland net zero over the next ten years.