Lloyds corporate volunteers recently gathered on a bright but chilly Spring morning in Birmingham to help plant 1001 trees as part of a special celebration! Birmingham has recently been designated a Queens Green Canopy City, and to celebrate Birmingham Trees for Life (BTFL) organised a tree...
Lynsey Ewan is a Woodland Trust Scotland member of staff - her role is as a Coordinator for our Membership Development Officers. Her route into this work was through volunteering with us, which is often the case. Volunteering can be a step into the world...
The Trust's biggest UK site just got a little bit bigger! We have acquired a 99-year lease on 77 hectares of land at Portnellan – between Loch Venachar and the A821. Portnellan will provide a new winter home for Glen Finglas' prize-winning pedigree herd of Luing cattle...
My tree, Our forest / Fy nghoeden, Ein coedwig So, what’s been happening in Wales? We’ve been extremely busy developing a joint campaign with the Welsh Government, which has just been given it’s official name of ‘My tree, Our forest’ following evening focus groups. Funded by the Welsh...
It’s been a while since we last updated you on our landscape-scale partnership project in Sussex, the Lost Woods of the Low Weald and Downs - with partners the Sussex Wildlife Trust, Small Woods Association, Action in Rural Sussex and the Environment Agency. Since April 2020,...
How ordinary people are saving local trees. Register for our free webinar on 16th March at 7pm to hear from campaigners who have taken action for trees. They'll guide you through steps individuals and communities can take as well as answer questions on how to defend...
You may have seen a few articles in the national news recently about signs of spring appearing earlier, and the link between this and climate change. The research on this, carried out at the University of Cambridge, can be found here – and you’ll see...
Over the last few months the site team at Smithills Estate have been felling an area of woodland affected by tree disease. Prior to work commencing, the team worked hard to find a method of felling the trees which would have the least impact on...
Anew set of water monitoring equipment has been installed to record the quality of water in the river and streams at Fingle Woods. This new system follows on from an initial scheme which provided a blend of good data and some learning experiences, with some...
Natural England are linking up with external contributors in our blogs to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the declaration of Yarner Wood as a National Nature Reserve (NNR). Yarner Wood, made ancient by the crucial relationship between trees and fungi, has seen many shifting attitudes towards it...