On Saturday 6th October, 500 happy lantern walkers descended on Skipton Castle Woods for the wood’s fifth Willow Lantern Walk. This year the route included an extra mile of woodland and for the first time included the grounds of Skipton Castle. Skipton is a woodland with...
Please vote for Our Woodland trust tree Bishops Knoll Sessile Oak, all the information is below The Bristol Tree Forum is hosting its first Bristol Tree of the Year Competition. Our aim is to increase public awareness of the arboreal heritage of Bristol and the many benefits...
[caption id="attachment_6966" align="alignright" width="300"] Picture: Michael Cooper[/caption] A monster of a giant redwood in Castlewellan, County Down, has been crowned Northern Ireland’s Tree of the Year in a search for the nation’s best-loved tree. Organised by the Woodland Trust, the competition was open to any living tree...
A couple of weekends ago 65 brave runners tackled the Bovey Beauty 10-mile fell race that starts and finishes in the Woodland Trust's Pullabrook Wood on Dartmoor. Organised as part of the Moor than Meets the Eye partnership with Natural England and the Dartmoor National Parks Authority,...
New site manager for Hertfordshire Luke Shenton met up with Heartwood volunteers Brian Legg. Tim Wright and Edric Williams the other day for a tour of the site. Brian, Tim and Edric are part of a team of volunteers who have dedicated their time over a number...
Since the Fingle Woods restoration project began in late 2013, a lot has changed. Volunteers have cleared clumps of invasive plants and built new bridges while contractors have cut down conifers and thinned out timber trees. from this Dense shading conifer to and this sunny woodland...
Volunteers discovered the natural and cultural history of Uffmoor Wood recently when they were joined by local expert and retired Woodland Warden Ken Gregory. Ken lead a guided walk around the site, pointing out various locations of historical significance, such as the digging of marl...
Back in June 2018 the Woodland Trust secured Heritage lottery Funding to complete the first phase of a project set to revitalise the Faughan valley landscape, on the outskirts of Derry/Londonderry. The Faughan Valley runs from the foothills of the Sperrin Mountains along the beautiful...
It all started with a sunny day in April during the Royal Forestry society visit to Fingle Woods. The sun was blazing down on the road bisecting Wooston Hillfort and as I was driving along, a dazzling show of orange flashed by the vehicle. Now...
Answer: they are all bats found at a recent bat survey at Colerne Park and Monks Wood run by volunteers from the local Wiltshire bat group. The group was targeting Bechstein’s and Barbastelle bats, as the site is an ideal habitat for these species and there has been...