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News releases covering Wales

The latest news from Coed Cadw (the Woodland Trust) in Wales.

5 March 2010 - Deputy First Minister Ieuan Wyn Jones sees for himself how you can go from a field to forest in just ten years

Elin Jones calls in at an Aberystwyth wood

29 Jan 2010 - Ten year old wood shows how land can go from field to forest with help from the local community

Assembly given 2000 reasons to plant more native trees

19 Jan 2010 - Evidence includes preventing flooding and combating climate change

Wales, we need your cards!

5 Jan 2010 - TV actor urges Welsh people to recycle Christmas cards to fund tree planting

Dame Judi Dench asks Wales to recycle this Christmas

22 Dec 2009 - Cinema legend is urging people to recycle their cards with the Woodland Trust

AM drops in to Woodland Trust wood to see what trees can do for the planet, and for his constituents

21 Dec 2009 - Darren Millar AM visits Coed y Gopa, Abergele

From field to forest in just eight years...

18 Dec 2010 - Jane Hutt AM visits Casehill Wood, a Woodland Trust wood in at Dinas Powys, Vale of Glamorgan

One more push to restore the native woodland of Snowdonia's hidden valley

27 Nov 2009 - Local AM and Assembly Presiding Officer Dafydd Elis-Thomas sees for himself what the Woodland Trust hopes to achieve in Cwm Mynach

Wild food expert supports the campaign to restore the landscape of a hidden Snowdonia valley

26 Nov - Bushcraft instructor Heath Dawson pledges to eat burdock and bilberries to help restore the monk’s valley

Planting a tree for Wales

24 Nov 2009 - Children from Ysgol Llanegryn and Ysgol Llwyngwril have been busy planting trees in Woodland Trust woodlands at Coed Ysgubor Wen, near Tywyn.

An unexpected boost in the campaign to save the Celtic rainforest

22 October 2009 - £100,000 contribution to help restore Cwm Mynach, the monk’s valley in Snowdonia, to its native woodland splendour

Isaac Wilinson's Weir at Plas Power Woods

Landscape that kick-started the industrial revolution to get a new lease of life

28 September 2009 - Waste management firm helps provide facelift for 18th century weir at Wrexham beauty spot

Petition presented to the Welsh Assembly!

21 Sept 2009 - Official figures show that Wales lags well behind the rest of the UK in creating new native woodland

2,000 people ask the Welsh Assembly to plant more native trees

25 August 2009 - Welsh language songster signs up to show his support

Half way to saving the Celtic rainforest

13 August 2009 - Woodland Trust fund-raising tops £400,000 – with five months to go

Snowdonia wood with its own railway wins Royal Welsh accolade

29 July 2009 - Woodland Trust is just the ticket in coveted woodland award

Woodland charity welcomes end to road plans

15 July 2009 - Coed Cadw has given a guarded welcome to the decision to scrap plans for the Cardiff Airport access road announced by the Deputy First Minister today.

Petition calls for more native trees in Wales

14 July 2009 Coed Cadw (the Woodland Trust) has launched a petition to ask the National Assembly for Wales to plant more native trees.

Coed Cadw slams "out of control" Transport Directorate

14 July 2009 - Welsh Assembly Government Transport Directorate criticised over threatened loss of ancient woodland at Newbridge on Wye

The future of the Celtic rainforest is in your hands

3 July 2009 - The Woodland Trust gets a once-in-a-lifetime chance to restore almost an entire Snowdonia valley to native woodland

Rediscover the wildlife of the hidden valley

20 May 2009 - The Woodland Trust gets a unique opportunity to expand and re-create native woodland across a hidden valley in Snowdonia

The lost oak of Ruabon

23 April 2009 - A plea for help from the Ancient Tree Hunt to try and find possibly the largest tree in Wales.

Elin Jones, rural development minister, with some very enthusiastic young tree planters from Ysgol Llanegryn

Plant! A tree for every child: second woodland announced

16 February 2009 Woodland in the shadow of Cadair Idris has been chosen as the second site for the Welsh Assembly Government scheme to plant a tree for every child born or adopted in Wales.

David Gray Choses Coed Dolifor

19 December 2008 - Musician David Gray has chosen Coed Dolifor, Powys, as his favourite woodland walk in support of the Woodland Trust

Forestry Commission Wales clearfelling at Wentwood

Last Chance to restore woodland

16 December 2008 - New woodland strategy offers chance to save Wales's ancient forests

Take a walk on the wild side this new year

12 December 2008 - People of all abilities can visit Coed Tregib to enjoy the newly planted woodland this new year

Welsh Youngsters get a taste of green pick and mix

14 November 2008 - Welsh youngsters get involved in tree planting

Gold Rush!

29 October 2008 - Community Tree Planting Day at Cefn Ila

Woodwatch!

21 October 2008 - Threat to Welsh Woods the Size of Pontypridd

1000 trees in Maerdy

15 October 2008 - TV naturalist Iolo Williams gets planting with local kids as part of S4C programme

Coed y Bobol wins the cup!

1 August 2008 - Devils Bridge Community group scoops prestigious community woodlands award

Andy Kehoe with one of his veteran trees

Gwynedd farmer shows way ahead for Wales' ancient woodland heritage

19 July 2008 - Andy Kehoe and his family, who run a 120 acre farm at Llandygái near Bangor, have become the latest Welsh farmers to register trees which may date back to the time of Cromwell as part of the Ancient Tree Hunt project.

Rob McBride gets up close and personal with an ancient tree

One man's mission to find the hidden treasures of the Marches

2 May 2008 - Ancient tree hunter to walk the entire length of Offa’s Dyke

Ancient woodland saved from concrete!

6 February 2008 - Success for the Woodland Trust and local campaigners at Wenvoe

Pencoedtre Wood from the air - photo Vale of Glamorgan Council

Pencoedtre Wood saved!

18 January 2008 - Vale of Glamorgan Council rejects ancient woodland development plant

The UK's last full-time traditional clogmaker in Coed Aber Artro

Welsh sycamore is putting the spring into the step of clog dancers

27 Dec 2007 - Recreating the historic oak woodlands of Meirionydd will be helping to put a spring into the step of some of the world’s top clog dancers!

First Minister Rhodri Morgan gets planting, with Natalie Vaughan (centre) whose idea the scheme was - photo WTPL/Rory Francis - Click to enlarge

Tree for every child scheme launched

18 December 2007 - From 1st January 2008 a native tree is being planted for every child born in Wales

Senedd Building reveals ancient treasure

23 Nov 2007 - Wales' newest ancient tree spotted, in the Senedd building! (Wales)

A bizarre autumn for nature's calendar

13 Nov 2007 - This year’s bizarre autumn sightings show climate change in action across Wales

Children's author Richard Berry talking to a group of kids

Barry Kids tree plant with Richard Berry

23 Oct 2007 - Barry kids get chance to meet local author Richard Berry, as they plant their own trees to celebrate the Big Wild Read Summer Reading Challenge (Wales)

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