Into the woods: the value of amenity woodlands
Join us for this month’s ‘Into the woods’ blog by Helen Townsend, the Forestry Commission’s Head of People, Landscape and Historic Environment. To mark Take a Walk Outdoors Day, she...
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A year of growth: tree planting rates hit their highest level in over 20 years
...To support this momentum, we’re investing in people by funding apprenticeships to build the skills we need to plant and care for our woodlands, now and into the future. The...
From acorns to ambition: six years of the Nature for Climate Fund and what comes next
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Richard Chapman, Posted on:
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Agroforestry, Carbon, Climate change and resilience, Economy and growth, Nature and biodiversity, People and access, Sector insight, Timber, Woodland creation
...looking to attract private investment into forestry and tree planting, providing confidence in the demand for woodland carbon over decades. The programme will also continue to invest in the sector itself: in forestry apprenticeships,...
What to expect from the Forestry Commission at The Game Fair 2019
...creation including creating resilient woodlands for the future Provide advice and support to woodland owners looking to manage their woodland Provide information on tree pests and diseases Talk you through...
Have your say about environmental change
...ecological processes, are impacting Britain’s trees and forests with increasing frequency and severity. I would like to invite you to have your say about how you have been affected and...
Two years on from our Centenary milestone
...that we successfully put processes in place to help us maintain our critical work while many staff were forced to work from home, including tree health management and port inspections,...
Yorkshire Water and the National Trust: how planting trees on our land can benefit nature, climate and people
...slowing the flow in the catchment. Bank stabilisation has already led to increased vegetation cover, and wildlife surveys have recorded an increase in amphibians and invertebrates in and around the...
New staffing support for Local Authorities creating woodland to tackle climate change
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David West, Posted on:
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Categories:
Climate change and resilience, Sector insight, Woodland creation
...and / or consultants). It is designed to be simple and flexible. Individual authorities can apply for up to £150,000 in total. Where authorities are working together in partnership, the...
New trees and peat guidance: helping to inform where to establish trees, and where to restore peat
...tool and guidance that sets out how the United Kingdom Forestry Standard (UKFS) will be implemented in England for trees and peatland. In June last year we published a decision...
Tackling tree pests and diseases at our borders
...in any firewood, and this enabled us to gain an insight into the trade and develop an inspection regime based on risk. These inspections have demonstrated that most of this...
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