This year the Woodland Trust Northern Ireland are celebrating twenty years of 'Woods on Your Doorstep', we've looked back to see just how local communities have benefited from these wonderful green spaces, visit our NI landing page on the Woodland Trust website to read the...
During September if you tuned into BBC NI you would have found out from the Woodland Trust Northern Ireland how you can play your part in the fight against climate change. Members of the NI team alongside some of our Faughan Valley volunteers featured in the...
Thanks to funding from DAERA The Drum Woodland is set for an upgrade. The funding that was made available via Mid and East Antrim Council as part of their Industrial Heritage Cross-border Cooperation Project will enable improvements to be made to the car parking access, paths,...
Thanks to funding from our partnership with Nationwide Building Society we will see this gem of a community woodland resource extended by 3.35ha by the end of 2020. The new area is home to long established woodland which we will be protecting and buffering with the...
A rarely seen butterfly, the purple hairstreak has been recorded in the Faughan Valley, in woodlands managed by The Woodland Trust Northern Ireland. We use transects to investigate changes in habitats rather than to simply estimate the number of organisms within it. Pam Hardeman, one of...
During these unsettling times, we’d like to invite you to escape reality for a while and let your mind refocus on nature by sharing your tales from the woods and help us celebrate our woodlands across Northern Ireland. The Woodland Trust in Northern Ireland is...
This May we will be attending/hosting two events that we would love your help with. Balmoral Show Once again we will be pitching up our marquee at the Balmoral Show as the event now runs across 4 days it would be great if some of our event...
Woodland Working Group at Canal Wood, Newry were able to dodge the bad weather at the weekend to make it out on site for a task day. Joining the group for the first time yesterday was new volunteer Katherine. Long standing group member Bruce helped Katherine...
A £1 million push for the Faughan Valley landscape gets underway The National Lottery Heritage Fund (HF) has announced funding of over £484,400 for a Woodland Trust project set to revitalise the Faughan Valley landscape, on the outskirts of Derry/Londonderry. The funding boost will enable the...
Volunteers came together last week for our last volunteer task day of 2019. We visited Drumnaph Woodland in Maghera and worked within the wetland area to cut and remove willow that was starting to dry up the ground. The wetland provides such a range of...