...are intervention opportunities to enhance these benefits: creating informal flood storage features such as ponds and scrapes can increase floodwater storage. Less intensive restocking can improve soil health and water...
...to level up access to nature across the country, planting trees in socially deprived urban areas with low canopy cover, in proximity to healthcare and educational facilities. By requiring match...
...signs that the integration of habitats and farming is benefitting local wildlife. While Newhouse’s main commercial enterprise is arable, Andy is working hard towards integrating trees into the farm system...
...the young trees and it started to become a problem, which I had anticipated. The trees were getting to a good size but I didn't want to lose them underneath...
...projected to capture over 4,000 tonnes of carbon over the next century. Community involvement has been integral, with local residents participating in planting days and enjoying newly created walkways and...
Chris Watson, Woodland Resilience Adviser, explains how sustainable woodland management, underpinned by timber income, is crucial to ensuring our woodlands continue to thrive. In this blog, Chris invites Nature Recovery...
...animals – it provides a window into the interconnected systems that sustain our woodlands, even in the harshest season. Forest of Dean in the snow. Credit: Forestry England Spot resident...
...increasingly used across estates and in landscape-scale projects to reduce deer and squirrel impacts, whilst night vision helps deer managers increase their effectiveness within current legislation. Research into grey squirrel...
...incursion (inset: breeding galleries in the bark) Although the beetle poses no threat to human health, it can have a serious impact on our spruce trees. They bore into wood...
...spread and/or introduction of tree pests, diseases, and invasive non-native species. It often surprises people how simple, inexpensive, and quick it can be to take these precautions, and what an...
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