Trees, woodland and forest UK news

• Forestry England buys 66-hectare plot of land near Smarden for new woodland, BBC News (Oct 02, 2025) — Forestry England to invite local people to share their views to help shape designs for the new woodland ahead of a wider formal public consultation in spring 2026
• Whitstable campaigners fight to stop 1,350 home development, BBC News (Sep 29, 2025) — local residents stepping up their campaign to fight what they have said would be the "largest ever development" in their part of Kent
• How Japanese 'tiny forests' are sweeping Scotland, BBC Future (Sep 11, 2025) — Grown using the Miyawaki method, fast-growing miniature forests in the middle of cities can bring surprisingly big benefits for people and the environment.
• The Ancient Woodland Practice Boosting British Biodiversity, reasonstobecheerful.world (Aug 28, 2025)
• Campaign launched to buy waterfall beauty spot, BBC News (Jul 17, 2025) — Campaigners say the community is ready to take responsibility for the future of the ancient woodland and waterfall
• ‘New hope’: ash trees rapidly evolving resistance to dieback, study reveals, theguardian.com (Jun 26, 2025)
• How to protect your favourite urban trees from increasing danger, theconversation.com (Jun 23, 2025)
• Kent landscape that inspired Dickens made nature reserve, BBC News (May 30, 2025)
• How to create a thriving forest, not box-checking ‘tree cover’, theconversation.com (May 27, 2025)
• UK government report calls for stronger legal safeguards to save England’s Ancient oaks, theguardian.com (Apr 16, 2025)
• New national forest to see 20m trees planted, BBC News (Mar 21, 2025)
• Drone tree-seeding trial could ‘revolutionise’ the expansion of rainforests say exponents, positive.news (Mar 18, 2025)
• The UK must make big changes to its diets, farming and land use to hit net zero – official climate advisers, theconversation.com (Feb 26, 2025)
• ‘Our community deserves beauty’: one man’s mission to green a UK tree desert, theguardian.com (Feb 20, 2025)

• Japan-style ‘tiny forests’ are taking root in British cities, theconversation.com (Oct 28, 2024)
• Testing the Miyawaki Method in Our Urban Greenspaces, naturalengland.blog.gov.uk (Sep 19, 2024)
• Profits from community windfarm to fund a million native trees in Hebrides, theguardian.com (Aug 31, 2024)
• As the world gets hotter, could helping trees migrate northwards protect them?, theguardian.com (Aug 19, 2024)
• Planting English trees to protect the Peruvian rainforest, positive.news (Aug 02, 2024)
• Community action and hedgerow success with Hedgerow Heroes phase 3, cpre.org.uk (May 23, 2024)
• A mecca for rewilders: the community-led project restoring Scotland’s southern uplands, theguardian.com (Mar 20, 2024)

• ‘We’ve had untold support’: how farmers are getting creative with tree-planting, positive.news (Dec 12, 2023)

• ‘Darwin’s oak’ to be felled to make way for Shrewsbury bypass, theguardian.com (Nov 01, 2023)

• Rescue mission for UK rainforests’ weird treasures, BBC News (Oct 21, 2023)

• Farmers like me can contribute to a hedge fund for nature at little cost to themselves, theguardian.com (Sep 21, 2023)

• Over 25,000 oppose quarry extension into ancient wood, woodlandtrust.org.uk (Aug 02, 2023) — "Over 25,000 of you joined us in responding to the consultation on the shocking proposal."

• Oaken Wood: The largest destruction of ancient woodland this century, stuartjeffery.net (Jul 17, 2023)

• Cornish farm launches project to triple UK’s temperate rainforest, The Guardian (May 08, 2023)

• Costa Rica restored its ravaged land to health. The rich UK has no excuse for such complete failure, George Monbiot, The Guardian (Apr 21, 2023)

• The Guardian view on Plymouth’s lost trees: an act of vandalism, Editorial, The Guardian (Mar 27, 2023) — The protesters are right. Felling more than 100 trees at night was disrespectful to both local people and nature
• ‘A disgrace’: more than 100 trees cut down in Plymouth despite local opposition, The Guardian (Mar 15, 2023)

• Plymouth residents fight to save trees, Wicked Leeks (Feb 08, 2023)

• The UK needs to plant 120 million trees per year by 2025. Can it be done?, Positive News (Dec 02, 2022)
• Lost rainforest could be revived across 20% of Great Britain, The Guardian (Oct 21, 2022)
• Trees, forests, scrub and hedgerows provide vital sources of habitat, food and shelter for an extraordinary array of wildlife. The problem is we don't have nearly enough of it here in the East, Wild East (Mar 14, 2022) — Hugh Somerleyton, one of WildEast's Founders argues we must strive for a wetter, wilder and woodier landscape for the benefit of all
• More than eight million trees lost this winter in the UK, BBC News (Feb 16, 2022)
• A tussle over tree planting, Wicked Leeks (Feb 04, 2022)

• Britain's lost rainforests could return in post-Brexit plans, Dec 25, 2021...^[1]
• Woods for wildlife and people get £16m funding boost in England, Jun 9, 2021...^[2]
• The 'messy' alternative to tree-planting, May 25, 2021...^[3]
• Local councils can be both arrogant and enabling. They chop down the trees overnight in Doncaster …and ask the citizens to plan their foliage and foresting in Frome, Nov 23, 2020...^[4]
• 'UK's first tiny forest' in Witney helps urban environment. Mar 10, 2020...^[5]
• National Trust unveils woodland expansion and tree planting projects as part of plan to become carbon net zero by 2030...^[6] Jan 9, 2020.

References

• Rewilding will make Britain a rainforest nation again, George Monbiot, Sep 25, 2019...^[1]

'Filled to bursting with trees, woods and nature reserves': greening the Green Belt by Friends of the Earth Innovation team.^[2] Jun 12, 2019.

• Is there a zebra in your community woodland?^[3] Apr 24, 2019.
• A new approach to Sheffield's street trees, Dec 13, 2018...^[4]
• We need to bring back the wildwoods of Britain to fight climate change, Isabella Tree, Nov 26, 2018...^[5]

References

• Tree Trail aims to highlight village's unique species, Jul 18, 2017...^[1]
• Urban trees breathe life into Salford street, May 17, 2017...^[2]
• 200,000 trees to be planted to cut Calder Valley flood risk, Feb 24, 2017...^[3]
• How millions of trees brought a broken landscape back to life, Aug 7, 2016...^[4]
• Scientists use people power to find disease-resistant ash trees, May 15, 2016...^[5]
• Britain to go green with 64m trees to be planted in 10 years, May 1, 2016...^[6]
• Government backs planting of four million trees across UK, January 9, 2014...^[7]

References