The Woodland Trust has been told it cannot see detailed maps for a new train line between Oxford and Cambridge, proposed by East West Rail, unless the charity signs a gagging order to prevent sharing information with its supporters , even though the track could...
Kylie Jones Mattock reports from her patch in North Wales: Last year was all about joined-up management at Coed Felinrhyd & Llennyrch! The third-largest site in Wales, the wood comprises a Planted Ancient Woodland Site known as Coed Felinrhyd, which has been undergoing gradual restoration in...
March signals the start of a new season - spring! It's time again for new life, fresh shoots and beautiful blossom. It's also time again to invite your MPs to the All-Party Parlimentary Group on Ancient Woodland and Veteran Trees (APPG). The recent changes in Parliament...
Would you like to sign up as an Ospreycam Research volunteer? For the third year running we are looking for volunteers in Scotland to review and edit the footage on our ospreycam up at our beautiful Loch Arkaig site. [caption id="attachment_9398" align="alignnone" width="300"] Ringing Lachlan the...
Anyone visiting the Halls Cleave area of Fingle Woods over the last few months will no doubt have noticed the new “leaky dams” that have appeared along the bottom of the valley. These human-built structures are designed to hold back the water and release it...
Hello all Welcome to our new volunteers – Sarah Hodgetts (Woodland Working Group / Volunteer Photographer) Gael Kouam (Woodland Working Group / Wildlife Group) Spring wildlife Our wildlife volunteers have been photographing plants and wildlife across the estate, including frogspawn and lesser celandine (the ‘herald of spring’)… spring is certainly...
This wonderful footage was forwarded on by Helen Greensmith, volunteer warden at Waukmill Woods. Helen was lucky enough to be treated to this wonderful spectacle on walking in Woodland Trust woodland one evening recently and we thought you may like to see it. This beautiful tawny...
Hello, I am Maggie McCallum and I volunteer as part of the woodland engagement and events teams at beautiful Glen Finglas in the Loch Lomond and Trossachs National Park. I began working towards an MSc in Countryside Management by distance learning in 2015, completing it in 2018 through the...
Many thanks to everyone who joined us for our final day of our winter woodland care season for the Sibsey/Skellingthorpe team in which we gave a bit of TLC to the beautiful ancient woodland at Old Wood, Skellingthorpe. The sun shone, the birds tweeted and our...
Well, what a fabulous day we had on Saturday. Wonderful company, beautiful spring sunshine and lovely food, we couldnt have asked for more! A huge thanks to everyone who came along and joined us at our first North England volunteer gathering of the year at Norton...