No, we haven't gone mad. We are talking about Oak Galls! 'What on Earth are they?' you may ask (or perhaps you are already in the know). Luckily, you can read on to find out (and never walk past an Oak tree again without having...
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...
(Photo from a pre-lockdown walk) The partnership programme between the Woodland Trust and City of Trees at Smithills, through which we run monthly dementia friendly walks, has been on hiatus since March. We have been keeping in touch with our walkers via newsletters and a WhatsApp...
We would like to say a very large welcome to Tom Wright, who has recently joined us as our new North England Regional Fundraiser. Tom came into post just before lockdown, but has already been working hard looking at ways of funding and supporting the...
There was lots of activity at Parc Mawr, Conwy, in February 2020. Volunteers from the Snowdonia Society were involved in making steps, respacing around young oaks, installing bird and bat boxes. Parc Mawr occupies a steep easterly facing side of the Conwy valley, hence the need...
During 'lockdown' we have seen a large number of new visitors to our woods, here is some feedback from the local community Facebook page. From late March through to August 2020 we have seen a large number of new visitors exploring the Woodland Trust locations here...
It’s not difficult to stay socially distanced in Great Knott Wood and finding a purposeful task for lockdown was a no-brainer - spruce-pulling. Situated just south-east of Lake Windermere, Great Knott is a wood of two halves. Round the edge is the wonderful semi-natural ancient woodland...
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...
For many of us, the start of August marks the arrival of high summer, bringing long hot days and balmy nights and summer holidays! For most species of birds, it is a time of change. Both resident and migrant, the breeding season is all but...