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Find out how to import timber and wood material, including the documents, identity checks and plant health inspections required.
Find information and support on woodland creation in England, including funding to create woodland, legal requirements and best practice for sustainability.
Information on Environmental Impact Assessments (EIA) for forestry projects in England. Guidance on whether you need to submit an EIA application form to the Forestry Commission.
If you use, produce or supply wood packaging material (WPM) to move goods to or from the EU or the rest of the world, you must make sure it meets international standards.
Find out how to identify and manage ash dieback if you own or manage ash trees. This includes private tree owners, woodland owners, farmers and local authorities.
Learn about the modification options to prevent mammal access to trees and woodland, including: sensory deterrents, fences, tree shelters, bud protectors and vegetation control.
Find out what grants are available under the tree health pilot (THP) scheme, if you’re eligible and how to apply.
A calendar of online and face-to-face Forestry Commission events, and details of shows and exhibitions we are attending.
Find out what you can do to prevent tree pests and diseases from establishing and spreading.
Find out how to kill trees on site using chemical treatments to prevent the spread of pests and diseases.
Learn about the management options to protect trees against mammal damage, including: enhancing natural predation, fencing, tree guards, immunocontraceptives, lethal control and non-lethal control.
To help protect Britain's trees and woodland, a felling licence from the Forestry Commission is required to fell most trees.
The Extraordinary Payment for Restocking in Exceptional Circumstances provides funding to help replace trees planted in 2024/25 that have been affected by hot and dry weather.
Learn how to protect trees from: roe deer (Capreolus capreolus), red deer (Cervus elaphus), sika deer (Cervus nippon), fallow deer (Dama dama), Reeve’s muntjac (Muntiacus reevesi) and Chinese water deer (Hydropotes inermis).…
Scheme rules for holders of agreements that started on 1 January 2021
The grey squirrel (Sciurus carolinensis) is considered a woodland pest due to the damage they cause to trees. Learn more about their impact on trees, your management options and how to control their access to individual tree…
Learn about the management options for trees and woodland in the landscape, including: felling, shelterwood, overstocking and diversifying tree species.
This document contains guidance on how to use the Forestry Commission map browser and Land Information Search.
Information on oak processionary moth (OPM) for those who own or manage oak trees, including private tree and woodland owners as well as local authorities.
Use this guide and the templates to determine works within woodland supplement 1 for the control and management of deer.
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