For the first time in the Woodland Trust’s history in Northern Ireland, our new site in the Belfast Hills, Glas-Na-Bradan Wood will be planted completely by the public. To date we have planted approximately 40,000 trees! With volunteers at the heart of this project we are starting...
In this issue of Wood Wise our expert contributors explore the intricacies of woodland creation. It aims to inform decision making to lead to the establishment of well-functioning woody habitats. Decisions made on where new woods and trees are located in a landscape, and how creation schemes are...
Take a drive, just 3 miles east of Wrexham town centre, heading towards Coedpoeth (Welsh for “hot wood” if your Welsh isn’t up to scratch) and you’ll find the Plas Power estate, known more familiarly to the locals as Nant Mill. Tucked...
Only just over a month into the New Year and we’re already dealing with another potential controlled pest at Brede High Woods, East Sussex, in the form of the 8-toothed European spruce bark beetle (Ips typographus), which - though tiny- you will agree sounds like...
Faughan Valley: from fragments to thriving forests Funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund, this project aims to reconnect pockets of precious ancient woodland to allow them to thrive in the future. Over the past year our team has been working with local partners in the Faughan Valley...
We are all too aware of diseases and infections that can spread around the globe and, whether these infect people or plants, their transmission may have an effect on us one way or another. In recent years there have been several plant pathogens that have...
Our Big Climate Fightback (BCF) campaign is gathering momentum. In a massive boost to the campaign, ITV will feature it on tomorrow’s This Morning programme (Tuesday 1st February). Tune in at 10am to see Julia Bradbury plant a tree in the This Morning Forest with the help...
Ten whole months passed between the awakening of my interest in this project and finally ‘making my debut’. Presenter Steve Brown’s visit on behalf of Countryfile was the spur I needed to contact the Woodland Trust. I had previously read the board which explains the...
It is with sadness that we bid another member of the South East team 'adieu' this month, as Grace Davis, Engagement and Communications Officer for the region, embraces a new role within the Trust. After over four years it is exciting to hear that Grace...
Thanks to Natural England and its predecessors, Yarner Wood is still a forest (well, a wood) on a hill. It still mainly consists of sessile oak woodland with a rowan understory and bilberry field layer, as it was when it was bought 70 years ago...