Search our site
-
Trees woods and wildlife
Dutch elm disease
This now infamous tree disease has killed millions of elm trees in the UK over the last 50 years. It’s changed parts of our landscape forever and it’s still spreading north.
-
Trees woods and wildlife
Horse chestnut leaf miner
The larvae of the horse chestnut leaf miner bores within horse chestnut leaves, eventually causing them to drop and harming the tree and leaving it vulnerable.
-
Woodland Trust Wood
Bisham Woods
Cookham Dean Maidenhead
152.63 ha (377.15 acres)
-
Woodland Trust Wood
Tattershall Carrs
Tattershall
29.00 ha (71.66 acres)
-
Woodland Trust Wood
Uig Wood
Uig Portree
17.60 ha (43.49 acres)
-
Trees woods and wildlife
Hazel dormouse
Sleepy, charming, undeniably cute. This minute mammal needs trees to survive and is seriously endangered.
-
Trees woods and wildlife
Wild boar
Big, bulky and back. Wild boar have made a controversial return to the UK’s woods after centuries away.
-
Trees woods and wildlife
Hawthorn
Named after the month in which it blooms and a sign that spring is turning to summer. The pale green leaves of this hedgerow staple are often the first to appear in spring, with an explosion of pretty pale-pink blossom in May. It simply teems with wildlife from bugs to birds.
-
Trees woods and wildlife
European Tree of The Year
The UK Tree of the Year, the Skipinnish Oak, placed 7th in 2025's European Tree of the Year competition.
-
Protecting trees and woods
Campaigns news archive
Explore the highlights of our major campaigns and success stories from the last few years.