Barbara, Baroness Young of Old Scone, is a Member of the House of Lords with special interests, among others, in the environment, agriculture, natural resources and climate change. She is Chancellor at Cranfield University gand her voluntary positions include President of Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Northamptonshire Wildlife...
We're thrilled to announce that together with The Community Forest Trust, we plan to create an exciting new Northern Forest that will comprise over 50 million trees over 25 years. It will stretch from Liverpool across to Hull with the M62 as its spine. This ambitious...
With the launch of the new Nature’s Calendar website we need more records than ever, and this is where you come in! For those of you that don’t know Nature’s Calendar is a Woodland Trust’s citizen science project and has been tracking species responses to...
Summary 2017 This year has seen real growth of the speaker network. At the end of 2016 we had 50 volunteer speakers and some real geographical gaps across the UK. These included Wales, Scotland, the South West and the North East. The network has now doubled...
Observatree is about identifying when new tree pests and diseases arrive in the UK as early as possible and also spotting new outbreaks of those that are occasionally found here. This enables a fast response and the greatest chances of eradicating or controlling the outbreak. ...
Asian hornet, Vespa velutina The Asian hornet is native to Southeast Asia, but it was accidentally introduced to France and is rapidly spreading. There are major concerns and a high possibility that it could come to Britain in soil associated with plants (such as imported trees),...
The Trust generally spends more time planting trees that we do cutting them down, but sometimes there is a good conservation reason to fell trees. Cwm Mynach, nestled in the mountains of southern Snowdonia, is the largest Trust wood in Wales. It contains fantastic ancient...
In 2017, volunteer guided walk leaders helped the Trust to run three guided walks in and around our Conwy woods, attracting a total of 55 visitors. In spring, walkers explored the Iron Age hillfort at Coed y Gopa and found out about the unusual display...
Trail Camera Volunteers Although many of us walk in the woods on a weekly, or even daily, basis, we don’t always get to see the wide range of wildlife that calls it home. Taking a peek into the secret lives of woodland creatures is a team...
Since the Trust bought Llennyrch, a stunning 550 acre property in Snowdonia, two years ago, we have been busy with essential works, including over five kilometres of stock fencing around the woodland. Some of this was made from oak cleft on site, following a tradition...