This April we officially launched the Faughan Valley: from fragments to thriving forests project. The event that took place via zoom saw experts in conservation, tourism, access and funding speak about the impact that this landscape project will have on the north-west of Northern Ireland,...
The Woodland Trust Northern Ireland today has announced it has acquired new land in the Belfast Hills. Thanks to funding from Biffa Award, as part of the Landfill Communities Fund, and NIEA, the UK’s largest woodland conservation charity has taken ownership of 98 hectares next to...
Just last month we saw the final installment completed within our First World War Centenary Wood, Brackfield Wood in the Faughan Valley. The Amphitheatre is a curved structure that stretches 250 meters long with four tiers of seats topped with wooden seating made from Western Red...
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...