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  • Press Release

    High Alert installation takes public art into the woods

    The Woodland Trust Northern Ireland is hosting a public art exhibition by Rob Hilken at three of its sites in August and September.

    Glynis Watt  •  08 Aug 2024

  • Press Release

    New community woodland taking shape near Billington

    Work is well underway on a new community woodland planned for Billington in Lancashire.

    The Woodland Trust  •  02 Aug 2024

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    Loch Arkaig osprey chicks bound for Spain as Dad’s catch plummets

    Two young ospreys from a nest in Lochaber have been taken into a translocation programme after their father’s plummeting fish catch began to raise concern.

    George Anderson  •  02 Jul 2024

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    New study reveals the UK’s rarest rainforest beetles are multi-day adventurers

    A new study delving into the lives of one of the UK’s rarest beetles shows them to be athletes and adventurers – travelling the scaled–up equivalent of several kilometres a night in search of food and mates.

    The Woodland Trust  •  18 Jun 2024

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    Vandalism at Young People’s Forest will not derail nature project, says Woodland Trust

    Structures damaged by recent vandalism at the Young People's Forest at Mead will cost thousands of pounds to repair.

    The Woodland Trust  •  15 May 2024

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    Woodland Trust seeks major new corporate partner to empower young people through ‘Funding for the Future’

    The Woodland Trust, recognised as the UK’s largest woodland conservation charity, is boldly seeking out the perfect business to work in partnership with to support an ambitious new programme of work.

    Julie Ellerby  •  06 Dec 2023

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    Groundbreaking scientific research project at Snaizeholme will tackle the impacts of extreme weather

    One of the biggest pieces of scientific research ever undertaken in the English uplands will tackle the impacts of extreme weather.

    The Woodland Trust  •  17 Nov 2023

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    First trees planted as charity tees up to turn abandoned golf course into wildlife haven

    School children are set to plant the first of 30,000 trees at Frodsham, Cheshire in an ambitious project to turn fairways into forest and greens into glades.

    The Woodland Trust  •  08 Nov 2023

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    300,000 households given new access to nature, new study of Northern Forest shows

    More than 300,000 households have been given access to nature they previously didn’t have, a new Northern Forest study shows.

    The Woodland Trust  •  04 Oct 2023

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    Logging horse and 'Water Horse' team up to revive ancient Highland forest

    The newest form of timber transport has teamed up with the oldest, in a bid to restore a spectacular remnant of Caledonian pinewood and Scotland’s rainforest.

    George Anderson  •  02 Oct 2023

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