...scheme is eligible for the grant. This then enables us to administer the payments which currently average £11,800 per hectare and have the potential to be as high as £19,500...
...stunning when spotted – the vibrant pink of the Elephant, and the green of the Lime (below), or even the spectacular green screaming deathmask of that rare visitor, the Oleander...
Eleanor Marks is Technical Officer at LEAF (Linking Environment And Farming). Here, Eleanor highlights how farmers are incorporating trees into their farms to benefit their businesses, wildlife, community relationships, and...
...the late Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth through a national tree planting initiative The Queen’s Green Canopy (QGC). The new Tree and Woodland Cover target has moved through Parliament and is...
...UK’s first degree-level Forestry Apprenticeship programme. As a 41-year-old career changer I was a little apprehensive about being the eldest at both the assessment centre and then again when joining...
...of a wooden clinker-built fishing boat. While iconic bluebell carpets under hazel coppice are there because we were confident that we would need an endless supply of hazel hurdles for...
...spring rain means that tracks show well, making spring an ideal time to undertake deer surveys. Large deer populations can damage young trees and prevent the natural regeneration of new...
...than four hectares of woodland creation! This year, we will be supporting the Essex hub for the second year and a new free hub based in Suffolk. The Suffolk Tree...
...outbreak hotspot in France and Belgium to southern England, including parallel ‘coastal’ traps on either side of the channel. During a large-scale dispersal event in 2021, beetles were found to...
...the main entrance to the woods. There is no real path surfacing and there is a low level of tree management (mostly removal of fallen trees across the Public Right...
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