...more trees to be produced without increasing current irrigation volumes. More precise irrigation scheduling can maintain or even enhance tree quality. However, implementing novel irrigation protocols requires new user-friendly tools...
...we’d made good progress with funding opportunities and in National Tree Week we were able to promote new schemes and partnerships. The Government’s £40m Green Recovery Challenge Fund was announced...
...Might Oaks from little Acorns grow? These include a range of new grant schemes and partnerships that have launched including our flagship new grant scheme, the England Woodland Creation Offer....
...new grants and announcing new policies, along with Forestry Commission and Natural England advisors helping landowners and managers to start taking up the England Woodland Creation Offer. In late June...
...new ministers here at Defra. It’s the start of a new era. It seems like a lifetime ago when we launched our consultation on the England Tree Strategy in the...
...the UK’s forests generated £515 million from timber and wood fuel (£126 million in England).1 By contrast, the value of woodland leisure and tourism has been harder to quantify, meaning...
...launched in June 2021 to offer financial incentives to help land managers and farmers establish new woodland that offers environmental and social public benefits. EWCO was generally well received and...
...areas, on the 18 March a new payment available for England Woodland Creation Offer applications on low sensitivity land was introduced. This, alongside use of the new woodland creation sensitivity...
Amanda Newsome, Biodiversity Net Gain Advisor and Jim Smith, Urban Forestry Advisor at the Forestry Commission explore how integrating trees into new developments can contribute towards delivering biodiversity net gain....
...in forestry Be open to new opportunities I was open to moving around to different locations and seeking out new opportunities and experiences. I grasped a couple of opportunities, and...
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