...until August 2024. The new scheme aims to establish better coordination between landowners and managers at a local level to help tackle the hazardous pest. Calling all owners of infested...
...works and the legal responsibilities around these protected species. Book now for: European Protected Species for Foresters, Tuesday, 10 September 2024 -Lyme Park & Goyte Forest, Stockport, SK12 2NR European...
...4 years, and our hopes for 2024/25. As we write, the recent freeze has passed and Storms Isha and Jocelyn have blown through the country. All this noteworthy weather has...
During National Plant Health Week 2024, our panel of experts from the Forestry Commission, Forest Research, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and Observatree led a live Tree Health Clinic Q&A on...
...for a third round of funding applications, with £260,000 available for projects during 2024/25. Collecting dry seed in thinned area. Credit: Clive Ellis, Oxley Wood, Essex As well as the...
Applications to the 2024 Professional Forester Apprenticeship are now open. Marcus Ling has just started the apprenticeship programme and is working within the Forestry Commission’s South East and London Area...
...woodland is in decline, with statistics showing the area has dropped by 14% from 356,000ha in 2007 to 305,000ha in 2024. A 14% loss of broadleaf woodland would have rightly...
...In 2024, 224,000 green tonnes of softwood were used in the UK as fence posts.2 Whilst official statistics don’t exist for hardwood fencing, this is still a significant market which...
During National Tree Week 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...
...Their nests can often be spotted on trunks and the undersides of branches. You can find where they are most commonly found in the UK on our OPM 2024 management...
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