The Natural History Consortium are after people’s views on their visions for the future they have just launched a two week push to encourage people to send us their visions for the future of the environment in the form of a ‘postcard from the future’....
The owners of the land north of Bristol have been well documented since before the time of King Offa. These have included the latter’s henchman Aethelmund, Geoffrey de Montbray, the Norman Bishop of Coutances, the Bishops of Worcester and, after the Dissolution of the Monasteries, ...
Super Woodland Trust volunteer Brian Legg has published a new book called ‘Heartwood Butterflies’. Over ten years, two members of the charity Butterfly Conservation conducted weekly monitoring visits to identify the butterfly species present at Heartwood. The results of these visits are recorded in ’Heartwood...
Having had over 4 inches of rain in June our concerns that some of our newer apple trees in the beehive area were under stress are now over. Everything is looking very green and healthy. Our leaflets continue to fly out of the boxes -...
As the years pass, gradual changes in the landscape may go unnoticed but, sometimes, as we walk through the woods, we may dig deep into the recesses of our memories to recall what it was like before the Fingle Woods restoration began. Perhaps we try...
A small herd of cows is going to be tagged with GPS in a new scheme by the Woodland Trust to track their “moovements” and how they can boost diversity. Six Dexter cows started roaming Avon Valley Woods at the weekend. At least one of these...
The latest State of the UK Climate report reveals that 2019 was a year that broke multiple records for temperatures in the UK. The report also includes a phenology section in which Nature’s Calendar records show the impact of the weather and climate on wildlife. Read...
Hainault Forest in Essex is one of our flagship woods in central England, and was once part of a large royal forest known as the Great Forest of Essex. In 1851 the Crown Lands Act was passed for the disafforestation of the Forest. Over 100,000...
This is to all our dedicated volunteers across Scotland, I wanted to say hello and to remind you that we haven’t forgotten about you all, nor about how much we value volunteering. It sounds like a cliché but we really couldn’t do much of what we...
A pioneering project which aims to breathe new life into critically threatened woodlands in Sussex has received initial support* for a funding boost from The National Lottery Heritage Fund. Led by the Woodland Trust, The ‘Lost Woods of the Low Weald and Downs’ project aims to...