Meeting new volunteers At the end of September we hosted a Zoom meeting for our new cohort of volunteers for our Brynau woodland. A range of volunteers including wardens, livestock monitors, historical researchers and woodland working group members were able to attend. We even managed to...
Not really! It's a leucistic squirrel! Captured on film at Longbeech Wood in Kent by the fabulous Tim Hewke, Volunteer Wildlife Monitor and Warden extraordinaire, this pale beauty is certainly unusual. If you are not familiar with the term, leucism is caused by a mutated...
Misty mornings with a slight chill and the smell of damp in the air – the leaves are turning yellow; but what type of Autumn colour will we have this year? As the daylight hours are shortening and it’s getting cooler, deciduous trees and shrubs are...
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...
Look out for our very own Lineover Wood appearing on Countryfile in November 2020. The episode focuses on the ‘healing countryside’ something which I think many of us agree on at the moment. Local Site manager Joe Middleton recently hosted Ellie Harrison and the Countryfile...
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...
The dormouse is one of the charismatic species of Fingle Woods that, with attentive investigation, can help us to find the optimum way to restore the various habitats that best suit them. In doing this effectively, we can also benefit many other mammals, birds and...
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...
Earlier in the summer a group of fairies with little decorated houses started to appear at the beautiful Sea Wood in the North West. The numbers grew over the summer and their associated paraphernalia to the point of 'littering' the woodland (depending on your viewpoint)...
Alison Stewart is a very dedicated volunteer Woods Under Threat Detector, whereby she reviews planning registers for applications that may involved damage to ancient woodlands and trees. Her role also includes reviewing local authority development plans, again carefully looking to see if woods and trees...