Hucking is a magical landscape and if you haven't visited - you really should! The Woodland Trust is also extremely fortunate to have a dedicated group of local volunteers who care for the orchard there and they have been extremely busy of late! The team were...
On 21st April we re-started our volunteer work at Castle Hill and Four Lane Ends Woods in County Durham. For the first time since February 2020, volunteers were able to work in Castle Hill and Four Lane Ends Woods in North West Durham. As the ground...
Parc Mawr is located on the western side of the lower Conwy valley, on the lower slopes of the Carneddau Mountains in Snowdonia, near the medieval town of Conwy. Every spring this gem of a woodland offers up a breath-taking display of bluebells. Rob Collister has been...
Volunteers at Skipton were really pleased to finally get back out in the woods again last week The photo shows our muddy (and very smelly) clearing of the mill race! This is the first activity we have undertaken in several months. We took advantage of the...
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...
In the ninth instalment of our “Bird of the Month” blog we go looking for one of Fingle’s less common species… but not where its name might suggest! By early April, although hard frosts still cover the valley floor on cold nights, there are signs of...
Clamp Rough and Gallows Grove Wood was acquired by The Woodland Trust in 1993 and covers eight hectares of ancient woodland made up of birch canopy with some oak, chestnut, field maple, rowan, wild cherry and holly in places. There is also mature oak over...
Woodwise is a publication put together by our Conservation team and always makes for a great read. The Autumn 2020 issue is available on our website and is all about the importance of natural regeneration for expanding tree and woodland cover in the UK. Find our...
I just wanted to share a few lines to say that it’s great to be back out in the countryside, both in terms of recording new trees for the Northumbria veteran tree project but also as in this case verifying some hidden gems in Target...