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A year of growth: tree planting rates hit their highest level in over 20 years

A year of growth: tree planting rates hit their highest level in over 20 years

Richard Chapman, Deputy Director of Defra’s Nature for Climate Fund Tree Programme, highlights the latest annual statistics, what has been achieved over the past year and what is to come. Yesterday, the Forestry Commission published their latest set of Provisional …

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An emerging threat to beech – Petrakia liobae

Posted by: Simon Honey, Posted on: 18 November 2020 - Categories: Tree health
A leaf showing symptoms of Petrakia liobae

Petrakia liobae is a disease threatening Beech trees in central Europe. Know what to look out for and how to report suspected findings.

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National Plant Health Week: Here are the pests and diseases threatening our plants

Posted by: Stephanie Godliman, Posted on: 26 September 2020 - Categories: Tree health
Examining pests in a laboratory

In the UK, the value that our plants and trees provide to society each year is estimated at £9bn. In reality, plants are priceless. They clean our air, provide 80% of the food we eat and are known to help …

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National Plant Health Week: Biosecurity – the first line of defence

Posted by: Laura Brooker, Posted on: 25 September 2020 - Categories: Tree health
Biosecurity Officer cleaning boots

Our trees are under threat from an ever-increasing number of damaging pests and diseases. We aren’t helpless to stop this, but we need to start taking action now. These actions can be summed up with one word – biosecurity. Good …

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National Plant Health Week: Healthy stock for healthy forests

Posted by: Alistair Yeomans, Posted on: 23 September 2020 - Categories: Tree health
Young trees

Alistair Yeomans, Scheme Manager for the Plant Healthy Certification Scheme, writes about the aims of the scheme to help protect from pests and diseases.

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Wonderful woodlands and why you should create them

Posted by: Sir Edward Milbank, Posted on: 26 August 2020 - Categories: Woodland creation, Woodland management
Sir Edward Milbank stood in a field next to a sapling

Sir Edward Milbank, owner of the Barningham Estate, shares his experience of woodland creation and why he’s responding to the England Tree Strategy consultation.

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First on the scene – meet the people keeping our woodlands healthy

Posted by: Barnaby Wylder, Posted on: 29 July 2020 - Categories: Tree health
Barnaby Wylder inspects a sample

Barnaby Wylder, Tree Health Officer in the Plant Health Forestry Team, writes about the importance of his role to the protection of trees in the UK.

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Right tree, right place, right reason

Posted by: Mark Broadmeadow, Posted on: 17 July 2020 - Categories: Climate change and resilience, Woodland creation
Woodland around the outside of a clearing

Find out more about the UK Forestry Standard and why it plays such an important role in tree planting and sustainable forestry in England.

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Looking to the future of forestry

Posted by: Sir William Worsley, Posted on: 29 May 2020 - Categories: Climate change and resilience, Tree health, Woodland creation, Woodland management

Sir William Worsley, Chair of the Forestry Commission, looks at how our work has continued through the coronavirus outbreak and what the next steps are.

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Have your say about environmental change

Posted by: Dr Gabriel Hemery, Posted on: 27 May 2020 - Categories: Climate change and resilience, Woodland creation, Woodland management

Guest Author Dr Gabriel Hemery, CEO of the Sylva Foundation and co-ordinator of the British Woodland Survey, invites you to have your say this year.

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Tree felling – Do you know right from wrong?

Posted by: Ewan Calcott, Posted on: 18 May 2020 - Categories: Woodland management
Timber logs in a woodland

Felling trees without a licence, where one would have been required, is an offence. Find out why tree felling should happen and what you can do to help us if you think it is happening illegally.

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