On Sunday 29th April, members of the Woodland Trust Portmoak Moss volunteer Woodland Working Group joined forces with Butterfly Conservation Scotland's Bog Squad, to remove rejenerating birch from the highly biodiverse bog area of Portmoak Moss. There was a great turnout and removing encroaching birch will help to maintain populations...
A growing desire from schools to plant trees has led the Woodland Trust to launch a new resource for teachers. Tree Tools for Schools has been funded by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) to help teachers work out the best number and...
Welcome to the May Woods under Threat Detector Network update Unusual Woods under Threat Case Well done to one of Woods under Threat Detectors for alerting us to a planning application in Cumbria that involved ancient woodland growing on an area of limestone pavement. This caused quite...
Trust staff and volunteers attended a fascinating workshop on first aid for dogs at Perth Office. Led by a vetinary nurse from People's Dispensary for Sick Animals the sessions covered various techniques to deal with doggy injuries, collapses, poisonings and fits. Both real and fake dogs were...
With the approval of Stage 1 funding for the ‘Reconnecting Grantham to its Historic Landscape’ project, work can finally get underway on this exciting project at Londonthorpe Wood, in partnership with the National Trust! I hope that you will all support this fabulous project as...
All volunteers in the central region are invited to come along to a guided nature walk on Sunday 3rd June at the Volunteer Training Centre, Rutland Water Nature Reserve from 2pm-4.30pm. Taking place during Volunteers’ Week, we would like to use this time to celebrate all that is volunteering...
Afternoon everyone, you may have noticed that Whittle was temporarily unavailable for the last few hours. We took the site down to perform some essential maintenance but i'm pleased to say it's all back up and running now. If you have any problems with Whittle...
The Campaigns Team were delighted to hear that long standing Woodland Trust volunteer Keith Wilkinson MBE had helped Harrogate Borough Council take Persimmon Homes to task over the unlawful removal of a hedgerow in the borough. The home builder was fined a record total of over £34,000 plus...
Threatened changes in Welsh planning could jeopardise further our few remaining ancient woods and trees. A mere 4% of the Welsh landscape retains these irreplaceable ancient woodlands and the exceptional habitat they provide. How we all respond to this new additional threat to ancient trees...
Allow me to introduce myself. My name is Joseph Gillard. I happily go by Joe as long as there is an E on the end. I am one of the woodland creation protect officers for the Trust. I have been working with trees and woodlands for...