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News releases covering Wales

Coed Cadw takes inspiration from the past in improving Green Castle Woods for the visitors of tomorrow

1 December 2011 - Better footpaths, more interesting interpretation and more field trees are on the agenda

A single environmental body should make woods and trees its key ally in protecting and enhancing the Welsh environment

24 November 2011 - Coed Cadw has given a cautious welcome to the proposal to create a new single environmental body to enhance the Welsh environment

Coed Cadw’s challenge for local people in National Tree Week – Come and tell us what you want to see in Meirionnydd’s ‘hidden valley’

3pm – 8pm Friday 2 December in the Dolgellau Free Library

Woodland Trust marks National Tree Week with a major investment in protecting one of Wrexham’s key beauty spots

Programme starts with a free opportunity to learn the age-old woodland craft of hurdle making, on 26 November

Jubilee tree planting campaign gets Royal boost as HRH The Princess Royal calls in at 'inspiring' community garden

16 November, Fairwater, Cardiff 16 November, St Peter’s Community Hall, Fairwater, Cardiff, 11.15am

Diamonds are forever at Ffos Las

11 November 2011 - Britain’s newest racecourse is set to sparkle with a precious new edition, a Diamond Wood to mark the Queen’s 60 years the throne

Bluestone plants first ‘Diamond Wood’ in Wales

11 Nov 2011 - Wales’ first Diamond Wood is being planted at Bluestone National Park Resort in Pembrokeshire

New Usk woodland includes ‘finest arboretum in Wales’, claims historic garden expert

7 November 2011 - Cefn Ila event celebrates woodland creation five years on

Green shoots for a more profitable future at Anglesey farm open day

26 October 2011 - Cefn Maesoglan, Brynsiencyn, Anglesey

Open day to help farmers branch out into a more profitable future

11 October 2011 - Allt Goch Farm, St Harmon near Rhayader

Carrier bag levy could be great news for Welsh woodland!

26 September 2011 - Change could help cut litter, while major high street store announces it will use funds to support the work of the Woodland Trust

100,000 ancient and notable trees recorded

2 Sept 2011 - Ancient tree hunt finds over 33 giant oaks, with a girth of over 8m, in Wales alone

First Minister calls in at the Welsh Government’s own grove at Casehill Wood

1 September 2011 - Carwyn Jones meets the Woodland Trust to discuss how woods and trees can help deliver for Wales

Dermot O'Leary wants Wales to plant free trees for The Queen's Jubilee

24 August 2011 - Dermot O'Leary and the Woodland Trust have joined forces to offer free tree packs to communities

Welsh music group Brigyn welcomes Wales' Great Ancient Yew Trail

5 August 2011 - Twelve ancient yews, whose history is interwoven with the history of Wales, waiting for your visit...

World yew expert welcomes Great Yews of Wales Tour

4 August 2011 - Twelve ancient yews whose story is intimately entwined with the history of Wales, waiting to be visited...

“Let’s protect Wales’ most venerable ancient trees”, says new AM

1 July 2011 - Ken Skates meets up with the Woodland Trust under the ancient boughs of Plas Power Wood

The Prince of Wales to see Diamond Wood at Ffos Las

20 June 2011 - Racecourse given royal seal of approval

Woodland Trust welcomes seven-fold increase in area of new woodland created in Wales last year

14 June 2011 - But this figure of 700 hectares still represents just 14% of what is necessary to meet the Welsh Government’s tree planting target

£9,000 per hectare Glastir Woodland Creation Grants are a great opportunity for the future, says Brecon young farmer

21 April 2011 - ‘The carbon footprint will become increasingly important and I’m keen to make the best use of the farm’s resources.'

‘Trees could breathe life into valleys’

18 April 2911 - A Welsh National Forest through the South Wales Valleys?

Coed Cadw Cymru has launched its Manifesto ‘Growing Wales’ future’

8 April 2011 - ‘Trees are the answer to many of the challenges we face’, says Clive Anderson

Local communities across Wales get planting

30 March 2011 - 25,000 free trees being planted this spring

Wales Young Farmers get planting with the Woodland Trust

8 March 2011 - Wales Young Farmers’ Club (YFC) is celebrating its 75th anniversary by planting trees

Cadets plant MOREtrees at Ffos Las

6 March 2011 - Cadets planted 900 native trees at Ffos Las Racecourse in Camarthenshire

Help celebrate the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee with trees - in Wales

24 February 2011 - Princess Anne launches Woodland Trust’s Jubilee Woods project

Plant! celebrates its third Birthday

9 February 2011 - 100,000 native trees now planted, one for each child born in Wales since 2008

Coed Cadw (The Woodland Trust) seeks volunteers with tree planting know-how

8 February 2011 - Woodland creation champions wanted!

Woodland Trust gives guarded welcome to Elin Jones’ woodland announcement

1 February 2011 - This could be the start of a new ‘age of the tree’ in Wales

Sean Bean urges Wales to recycle this Christmas

22 December 2010 - Hollywood actor Sean Bean is asking the people of Wales to ‘do battle against waste’

Ho, ho, ho – Santa takes time out to plant trees with Gwynedd kids

17 December 2010 - Over 100,000 native trees now planted as part of the Assembly Government’s Plant! scheme

Snowdonia road scheme would destroy over two acres of ancient woodland

29 November 2010 - Ancient woodland loss would be the most significant in Wales since ancient woodland was given protection in planning policy eight years ago

The Welsh Assembly Government says it with trees

26 November 2010 - As National Tree Week begins, 100,000 families will soon have received a certificate confirming that a native tree has been planted for their child

Tree planting grant offers up to £9,000 per hectare

23 October 2010 - Welsh farmers have welcomed the Welsh Assembly Government’s new Glastir Woodland Creation grant scheme

Iolo Williams welcomes the Woodland Trust’s success in the race to save the Celtic rainforest

29 July 2010 - Generous supporters raise over £800,000 to bring back the oak and the ash to Snowdonia’s hidden valley

Free trees at the Royal Welsh Show

26 July 2010 - Coed Cadw takes its 'plant more native trees' message to Llanelwedd

Clive Anderson launches an ambitious tree-planting campaign

30 June 2010 - Nathan Sutcliffe 16 from Dolgellau, says: “My personal goal is to plant 150,000 trees across Wales. What’s yours?”

Hunting for Biodiversity in the Capital

3 June 2010 - The Ancient Tree Hunt comes to Cardiff as part of Wales Biodiversity Week

Llyn village pulls together in tree planting challenge

12 April 2010 - Coed Cadw and Merched y Wawr team up with the local community to breathe new life into Abersoch woodland

Welsh Assembly Government target of 100,000 ha of new woodland welcomed by Woodland Trust

19 March 2010 - The Trust calls for this target to be delivered by planting mainly native trees

Gone forever the sake of three minutes

18 March 2010 - One of the world’s rarest organisms is losing its home, veteran trees that provide a habitat for a lichen found on only around 200 trees world-wide

Tree planting champions converge on the Dysynni Valley

15 March 2010 - Nathan Sutcliffe, 16, one of Wales’ six Climate Change Champions, will be joining members of the public to plant hundreds of native trees

And here's one we prepared earlier...

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

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Autumn sunlight in Coed Cymerau Isaf, a Woodland Trust wood

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