Jessica Turner, National Historic Environment Advisor at the Forestry Commission, explores how pivotal periods in history led to the evolution of the tools our ancestors used to shape our wooded...
...increasingly used across estates and in landscape-scale projects to reduce deer and squirrel impacts, whilst night vision helps deer managers increase their effectiveness within current legislation. Research into grey squirrel...
...woodland owners face. Through the Forestry Commission’s Woods into Management Forestry Innovation Funds (WiMFIF), £7.6million has been awarded towards 62 projects with the aim to support innovative approaches in bringing...
...deer health surveillance Supporting the wild venison supply chain to boost traceable supply and consumption Increasing sector skills and capacity Supporting research evaluation and monitoring How to input into the...
...that have already led to changes on the ground. This includes planting at Avon Wood in Warwickshire. Robin Truslove, an expert in his field, said: As a Chartered Forester, it...
In 2021 it was announced that the Tree Production Innovation Fund would be making over £1 million available to 16 innovative projects striving to increase and diversify our domestic tree...
...government published the Tree Health Resilience Strategy in response to the increasing threat of pests and diseases impacting our woodlands. One of the key recommendations is that we should increase...
...introduced into the UK. The government has put in place rigorous controls to prevent introductions, but it's really important that we as individuals do as much as we can to...
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...to increase them. There is also a greater incentive for unscrupulous people to look for loopholes in the law. We need to close them. The Environment Bill will put this...
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