Plant Health Week 2024: Live Tree Health Clinic
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...
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The importance of woodland and trees to UK bats
...of pressures including: landscape changes due to habitat loss and the loss of food prey from agricultural intensification, plus the use of pesticides and chemicals that bats are particularly susceptible...
Introducing the new groups grant to protect against Oak Processionary Moth
...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...
The role of timber in sustainable woodland management
...sustainable harvesting of wood is one of the best tools we have to protect and maintain the benefits our woodlands provide. The history of our wooded landscape Woodlands have been...
Three reasons why England needs more conifer planting
...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...
Tree Production Innovation Fund - Spotlight on successful applicants
...and germination promoters to the seed pellet to assess if these additions improve germination and seedling establishment. Through commercialisation of the technology developed in this project, we hope to increase...
The Mercian Project: empowering woodland owners to improve biodiversity
...ecological value. A lush green treescape of broadleaved species, with a waterway running through the centre. Credit: Rachel Bates Understanding each woodland When we first visit a site, we meet...
Celebrating the timber in our lives
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Tree planting, Woodland creation, Woodland management
...years, but there is more work to do and the cost of not planting trees is significant. We need to create a more resilient, nature-rich and productive landscape that is...
Navigating Countryside Stewardship Higher Tier funding for effective woodland management
...way that: protects, restores or enhances the environment mitigates the effects of climate change These are important foundations for sustainable and resilient farming and food production. On 11 December 2024,...
5 tips for Environmental Land Management in-field agroforestry applications
...time is now. In 2024 Defra launched the ELM in-field agroforestry offer, providing more support for creating and managing agroforestry than there has ever been. There are agroforestry actions across...
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