Wood ants mean healthy woodlands
...of our woodlands. A wood ant colony crawling on leaves on the ground What are wood ants? A wood ant is a type of ant that lives in forests and...
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Help beat the eight-toothed spruce bark beetle through proactive woodland management
...what you can do to help. As a woodland owner, staying informed about threats to your trees is crucial for maintaining healthy forests and protecting your investment. One pest you...
Trees for zero?
...agree on the precise steps we ought to take. One thing pretty much everyone will agree on is that we need to plant more trees. Now that we are committed...
Want to help protect our trees? Find out what you can do with simple biosecurity
...we’re talking to the public, is make sure they understand exactly what we mean by it. Put simply, biosecurity refers to any measures or precautions that aim to prevent the...
Seeing the wood for the trees: how to harvest timber from your woodland
...woodland. What is really important is that any harvesting you do undertake is appropriate for your woodland and is sustainable. For any harvesting of trees to be sustainable it should...
Addressing the possible shortfall of oak for the 2022/23 planting season
...oak for this planting season, it is anticipated that nurseries may offer this as an alternative in the first instance. It is important that the differences between the two native...
How we're supporting tree and seed suppliers to boost domestic tree production.
...their resilience to future droughts. Many of the projects will also allow suppliers to produce more diverse stock, whether that be through investing in seed storage that allows them to...
A coordinated effort: how we’re tackling the dual threat of deer and grey squirrels
...increase culling efficiency, particularly for herding species that move into fields after dark. Currently, individuals must apply for night shooting licences for specific land areas and demonstrate that daytime shooting...
Developing the means to manage woodlands
...supporting innovation to help woodland owners to actively manage their woodlands. Did you know that only 50% of our private woodlands are actively managed[1] [2]? It is well known that...
Putting the forestry back into agroforestry
Jim O'Neill, Agroforestry Development Manager, shows how applying traditional forestry knowledge to agroforestry systems can unlock timber production potential. In this blog, Jim dives deeper into the topics that will...
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