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...
BBC Northern Ireland recently supported the work of the team in Northern Ireland by producing a short film to showcase our work. Filmed in the Faughan Valley in July 2020, the short film aired for the first time on Sunday past as part of BBCNI's...
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...
Over the last few months many of us have been forced by circumstance to adapt and respond to the rapidly changing situations around us, coming up with innovative solutions to the challenges we have faced. Here at the Woodland Trust within the world of volunteering...
Hello! I know i have been in the garden a lot more these days getting caught up with all the things needing done to tidy and get the garden ready for Spring /Summer. Here are a few useful links to things you can do during this...
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...
During this time when many of us are unable to get out and about as much as we would usually like to do, we thought of all of us as members of the volunteering family for the Woodland Trust, we could support each other by...