Trees, woodland and forest UK

This article focuses on information specific to the United Kingdom. Please see our Trees, woodland and forest page for a topic overview.


Resources

Maps

  • Woodland opportunity mapping, Where could we create woodland in England? takeclimateaction.uk, added 17:13, 1 October 2020 (UTC)

Other resources

Community forests in England

England's twelve community forests are afforestation-based regeneration projects which were established in the early 1990s. Each of them is a partnership between the Forestry Commission and the Countryside Agency, which are agencies of the British government, and the relevant local councils.

Most of the designated areas are close to large cities and contain large amounts of brownfield, underused and derelict land. When the forests were created the average forest cover in the designated areas was 6.9%, and the target is to increase this to 30% over about 30 years. As most of the land is in private ownership the schemes rely mainly on providing landowners with incentives to plant trees. However the forests contain areas of publicly accessible open land, and increasing public access is one of the objectives. W

News and comment

2020

Local councils can be both arrogant and enabling. They chop down the trees overnight in Doncaster …and ask the citizens to plan their foliage and foresting in Frome, Nov 23 [1] ...Somerset, ...Yorkshire and the Humber news

'UK's first tiny forest' in Witney helps urban environment. Mar 10 [2] ...Oxfordshire

National Trust unveils woodland expansion and tree planting projects as part of plan to become carbon net zero by 2030. [3] Jan 9

2019

Rewilding will make Britain a rainforest nation again, George Monbiot. [4] Sep 25

‘Filled to bursting with trees, woods and nature reserves’: greening the Green Belt by Friends of the Earth Innovation team. [5] Jun 12 ...South East England

Is there a zebra in your community woodland? [6] Apr 24

2018

A new approach to Sheffield’s street trees, Dec 13 [7]

We need to bring back the wildwoods of Britain to fight climate change, Isabella Tree, Nov 26 [8]

2017

Tree Trail aims to highlight village’s unique species, Jul 18 [9] ...Devon

Urban trees breathe life into Salford street, May 17 [10] ...Manchester

200,000 trees to be planted to cut Calder Valley flood risk, Feb 24 [11]

2016

How millions of trees brought a broken landscape back to life, Aug 7 [12]

Scientists use people power to find disease-resistant ash trees, May 15 [13]

Britain to go green with 64m trees to be planted in 10 years, May 1 [14]

2014

Government backs planting of four million trees across UK, January 9 [15]

Events

2015

November 28 - December 6 National Tree Week
treecouncil.org.uk

May

Walk in the Woods
treecouncil.org.uk

December 20 2014 - January 4 2015

Festival of Winter Walks
ramblers.org.uk

Campaigns

See also


References

  1. ↑ thealternative.org.uk
  2. ↑ BBC News
  3. ↑ nationaltrust.org.uk
  4. ↑ The Guardian
  5. ↑ medium.com
  6. ↑ Shared Assets
  7. ↑ @Sheffield Newsroom, Sheffield City Council
  8. ↑ The Guardian
  9. ↑ totnes-today.co.uk
  10. ↑ cityoftrees.org.uk
  11. ↑ home.bt.com
  12. ↑ The Guardian
  13. ↑ The Guardian
  14. ↑ mirror.co.uk
  15. ↑ Landscape Juice Network
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