As the seasons change our thoughts inevitably turn to the colder months ahead. So what better time to look back to those bright early days of spring, when East Dartmoor’s woods were bursting into life. By pairing the stats from this year’s bird breeding season,...
Volunteers got together yesterday (24 October) to enjoy a walk through Drumnaph Wood in Maghera on the hunt for mushrooms. The group led by Forage expert Dermot Hughes of Forage Ireland took to the woods to learn all about mushrooms and how to identify which are edible...
Thanks to everyone who came along and joined us for a really useful day last week out at Thorn Wood, near Northwich. Thankfully the weather held and smiled on us and we were able to enjoy a pleasant and productive autumnal day in the woods....
The Partnerships Team is delighted to announce our new partnership with The Body Shop. As part of the cosmetic retailer’s Enchanted by Nature Christmas campaign, a 1.8p donation from every in-store transaction will be evenly split between the Woodland Trust and the World Land Trust throughout...
Well done to our hardy volunteers who turned out despite the pouring rain for our two day dry stone walling course at Castle Hills Wood, Castleside last weekend, for a really useful and instructive couple of days. Thanks to Dave and Peter, tutors for the...
Welcome to the network update for the Woods under Threat Detector Volunteers and Super Campaigners. This month: Welcome from Naomi the new Super Campaigner Volunteer Manager Reminder about Training Materials Upcoming events Campaigns, blogs and a little light reading Best wishes and thanks for all your hard work Sarah Welcome from Naomi the new Super Campaigner...
On Saturday 6th October, 500 happy lantern walkers descended on Skipton Castle Woods for the wood’s fifth Willow Lantern Walk. This year the route included an extra mile of woodland and for the first time included the grounds of Skipton Castle. Skipton is a woodland with...
Please vote for Our Woodland trust tree Bishops Knoll Sessile Oak, all the information is below The Bristol Tree Forum is hosting its first Bristol Tree of the Year Competition. Our aim is to increase public awareness of the arboreal heritage of Bristol and the many benefits...
[caption id="attachment_6966" align="alignright" width="300"] Picture: Michael Cooper[/caption] A monster of a giant redwood in Castlewellan, County Down, has been crowned Northern Ireland’s Tree of the Year in a search for the nation’s best-loved tree. Organised by the Woodland Trust, the competition was open to any living tree...
A couple of weekends ago 65 brave runners tackled the Bovey Beauty 10-mile fell race that starts and finishes in the Woodland Trust's Pullabrook Wood on Dartmoor. Organised as part of the Moor than Meets the Eye partnership with Natural England and the Dartmoor National Parks Authority,...