Hello all It’s been a very busy week here! Tree planting This week 260 people have helped us to plant 3,000 trees – we were joined by four local schools, the Forestry Commission, Seddons, Selfridges, Enterprise Car Hire, Co-op Insurance, Bolton at Home, AFG Law, City of...
Many thanks to Jan, Lynn, Daniela and Stephenfrom our Friends of Gorse Cover Mounds group for all the hard physical work replacing the willow in the willow arch at the Gorse Covert Mounds site, near Warrington, as well as making a new willow dome. The...
You have only 2 days left to give your views in the Investing in Volunteers survey which is helping us shape the future of volunteering at the Woodland Trust. It's really important that we hear from as many current volunteers as possible so please follow the link below and answer...
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...