...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...
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...
...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...
...for a third round of funding applications, with £260,000 available for projects during 2024/25. Collecting dry seed in thinned area in Oxley Wood, Essex. Credit: Clive Ellis As well as...
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...
...week were slightly lower than the figure for 2024–25 (which were the highest in 20 years). We know from our colleagues that planting in the early part of the season was challenging, pushing some of...
...need to change, that led to the creation of the Wellbeing in Forestry group in 2024. Supported by the Forestry Commission, this group brought together organisations from across the sector...
...that all support the economy to function the way it does. A report in 2024 led by the Green Finance Institute, set out how nature underpins economic activity. It found...
...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...
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