The beautiful spring weather took your roving Volunteer Development Officer off on a few road trips, the final one this week being to Home Farm, near Alton, Hampshire. A stunning mixed habitat, this site really has it all and, along with a small group of...
Scottish Environment Minister Mairi McAllan MSP visited Loch Arkaig Pine Forest this week for a tour of our restoration work. While there she met with Woodland Trust staff plus our most popular contractor - Tarzan the logging horse! [caption id="attachment_24693" align="alignnone" width="300"] Mairi McAllan meets Tarzan. Pic...
Peat deposition on moorland is known to be one of the most effective forms of carbon storage, or ‘sequestration’. In its undisturbed state, peat is also a haven for unique and important wildlife but, around this priceless landscape lie layers of history and stories of...
Morning all! We're delighted our Alliance for Scotland's Rainforest film is a finalist in the #CharityFilmAwards! to all who voted already...
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...