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The government has launched a competition to help deliver a second new national forest, as search begins for a location for a third
Ground Control's Wildfell project in Essex combines woodland creation and habitat banking across 116 hectares, testing funding routes for nature recovery.
Part of the King's Series, establishing 25 new National Nature Reserves by 2028. Surrey's National Nature Reserve home to rare ground-nesting birds this spring
Landowner restores woodland through the England Woodland Creation Offer (EWCO), planting 23,015 native trees to reconnect fragmented habitats and offset carbon.
Trade restrictions brought in after Phytophthora pluvialis finding to be lifted in seven counties across England
Consumers are set to benefit from more home-grown clean energy, with an increased number of renewable projects to be enabled on the public forest estate
One-third of England's woodlands now estimated to be damaged by deer, with urgent action needed to protect trees and wildlife
The Forestry Commission marks National Apprenticeship Week with 2 schemes designed to grow the next generation of foresters.
Bids must be able to demonstrate they have the capacity, experience, and knowledge to deliver a new national forest
Learn how Salts Wood, a woodland creation site in Kent, benefits the local community and wildlife.
Learn about Brook Farm, an England Woodland Creation Offer (EWCO) funded woodland creation project in Herefordshire.
Learn how Hilley Farm in Shropshire converted marginal land into woodland and the varied benefits it has provided.
21 apprentices have become the first to graduate from the UK's pioneering degree-level forestry programme.
Read how funding from the Woodland Creation Planning Grant and England Woodland Creation Offer helped to create woodland in Cumbria.
Read how Natural England are monitoring and managing significant browsing pressure from deer at Kingley Vale National Nature Reserve (NNR) in West Sussex.
Read how Ingleborough National Nature Reserve (NNR) trialled different tree protection methods to minimise impacts from sheep and deer grazing to support woodland regeneration.
Millions of trees to help get Britain growing through billion-pound investment in green jobs and nature restoration, creating thousands of jobs
The Spruce Site Assessment grant will help woodland owners to evaluate their spruce trees, estimate felling costs and plan for early removal before potential infestations of Ips typographus.
Read how Nature and Nurture, a riparian woodland in Wiltshire, has used the Countryside Stewardship grant to protect valuable cricket bat willow from Eurasian beaver damage whilst adapting to seasonal flooding.
Read how Holnicote Estate has combined different management strategies to optimise tree protection across 600 hectares of diverse woodland.
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