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Trees woods and wildlife
Beech, copper
Deep purple, distinctive, dramatic. Loved by some but loathed by others. You’ll often find this striking tree planted in landscape-scale gardens as a specimen tree.
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Trees woods and wildlife
Badger
Big families, big appetites and big personalities. Badgers are a wood's ruling clan, often occupying the same sett for generations and laying a network of well-trodden paths through the undergrowth. They’re playful, house proud and expert foragers.
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Trees woods and wildlife
Chestnut, sweet
Introduced by the Romans and a roasted winter treat. These long-lived giants, with their prickly-husks and deeply grooved bark, give us our classic Christmas nut.
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Trees woods and wildlife
Hedgehog
Sleepy, cute, truly iconic. These prickly critters rely on hedgerows and woodland edges for food and shelter.
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Trees woods and wildlife
Spruce, Sitka
Imposing, aged, useful. The Sitka spruce accounts for around half of commercial plantations, and though it’s not as valuable as our native trees, it shelters birds and small mammals.
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Woodland Trust Wood
Greyfield Wood
High Littleton NE Somerset
36.23 ha (89.52 acres)
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Press centre
GB plant biosecurity strategy is a missed opportunity
The Government today published its Plant Biosecurity Strategy for Great Britain. Read our reaction.
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Protecting trees and woods
Priorities for local councils in Northern Ireland
Ask candidates in Northern Ireland to support trees and woods where you live using our list of priorities.
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Partnerships
People's Postcode Lottery
Support from players of People's Postcode Lottery has raised over £28 million to date, planting millions of trees, investing in the next generation of naturalists, restoring precious woodland habitats and helped us buy our first mountain – Ben Shieldaig.
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Trees woods and wildlife
Grey squirrel
Tree-climbing nut buriers. Scampering grey squirrels are a familiar sight, but sadly these American imports have had a disastrous impact on the native red squirrel.