Over the past 9 months the Woodland Trust Northern Ireland has welcomed 3 new team members to help us achieve our aims of protecting, restoring and creating woodland across the country. Meet the new team members: Paul Armstrong joined the Woodland Trust Northern Ireland in January 2021...
We're pleased to announce that we've now successfully acquired the 550 acres of land at Snaizeholme in the Yorkshire Dales, thanks in no small part to the fantastic level of donations we have received from our supporters. Now we can focus on the tree-planting and regeneration...
For the first time in the Woodland Trust’s history in Northern Ireland, our new site in the Belfast Hills newly named as Glas-na-Bradan Wood will be planted completely by the public. The planting, which will begin this year, will run as a five year programme...
As we walk through Fingle Woods today, it is a good time to remember and reflect on what has been achieved through more than five years of the ‘Bringing Fingle Woods Back to Life’ project, funded by the National Lottery Heritage Fund. In the early...
On Tuesday this week, staff and volunteers met to undertake some important orchard management. Langley Vale Wood's orchard is sponsored by our Woodland Trust’s long-term partner Sainsbury’s and was planted in 2017. Our team of orchard volunteers have been looking after the new orchard since...
The Trust's Malcolm Turner and Caz Austen from Ben Shieldaig, Tom Reed of Citizen Science and outreach advisor Alan Crawford collaborated with Wester Ross Biosphere and NatureScot to co-ordinate some training in ancient trees in Wester Ross last week. Ancient Trees are hugely under-recorded in the...
It's all about the trees...
Dear Ancient Tree Verifiers, I hope you are well, and that you have all had an enjoyable time verifying trees for the ATI this summer. We’d like to take a moment to celebrate a handful of the most exciting finds of the season. Highlights of the summer ...
Last month, site manager Peter Coles led a guided walk at Joyden’s Wood to inform regular visitors about the Trust's approach to managing planted ancient woodland sites like Joyden’s, just 13 miles from the centre of London. Peter clearly conveyed the importance and rarity of ancient...
A woodworker who made elaborate commemorative benches for Woodland Trust's most northerly site is to be himself commemorated by his final unfinished piece. Bill Ross of Ardgay in Sutherland died on Hogmanay aged 76. The story of his woodland benches began in 2015 when an oak tree...