Trees are battling the climate crisis, pests and diseases throughout the UK. Richard Cobb, Local Partnership Advisor for the South East and London, shares what we can learn from recent...
Products, people and possibilities is the central theme of this year’s National Forestry Conference. Emma Bramley, Area Marketing and Communications Manager for South East and London, discusses this topic and...
Jim O’Neill, the Forestry Commission’s Agroforestry Development Manager, shares new funding available for agroforestry. I have spent over 30 years working with farmers and land managers in East Cumbria, creating...
...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...
...Luke Everitt, our Field Manager and Woodland Creation Lead in South East and London, said: “The conference is a great opportunity for agents and landowners to come together to discuss...
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...
...aims to increase active woodland management in the North East and North Yorkshire by developing, disseminating, and supporting innovation to help overcome barriers and support woodland owners to actively manage...
...and landowners have taken to heart and implemented. However, field research done by the University of East Anglia and others shows that agricultural products are still finding their way into...
...been greater. We are fortunate to have had a long legacy of considering landscape in woodland creation going back at least fifty years to the seminal work of Dame Sylvia...
...helicopters and using drones. 12 helicopter flights have taken place covering the south-west and south-east of England and in Wales. As well as being able to target specific areas, aerial...
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