When landscape scale conservation in action looks like delicately sprinkling seeds…
Vanessa Burton
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Just a human working for woody habitats. Landscape ecologist and nature networks manager at Forestry England. Not a fan of binaries in land or life. Likely to be found running, hiking or biking for ☕ or 🍺 | 🌈
Montane willow scrub is 1 of our most threatened habitats, with only a few 100 ha remaining throughout Scotland Finding this nationally rare Net-leaved Willow in Perthshire was a fine reward for one of the wettest day's botanising I've ever endured! Botanical #adventcalendar Day 17 #wildflowerhour
A lone birch tree getting the backlight treatment on an atmospheric morning in the Caledonian forest. #scotland #birchtree #betula
📉 Today we published The State of the UK's Woods and Trees Report 2025, bringing together the latest evidence needed to protect and restore our #woodlands 🩺🌳 👉 Read the key findings here: bit.ly/4dNkiYd 👂 Or tune in for our summary on BBC Radio Scotland (starts at 2.54) buff.ly/DwLp7cP
“I was running an operating list with 10 people on it and every day at least half were under the age of 11 - it's barbaric.” Dr Victoria Rose, who has just returned from working in Gaza, tells @cathynewman.bsky.social what it was like. Read and watch: www.channel4.com/news/gazan-c...
Gazan children in hospital ‘like a conveyor belt’, says surgeon
We spoke to Dr Victoria Rose who's just returned from three and a half weeks working in Gaza.
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From 2–8 June, the University of Oxford will be hosting local activities themed around climate justice. Look out for talks, exhibitions, concerts & more. Join our Right Here, Right Now. www.ox.ac.uk/news-and-eve...
Right Here, Right Now | University of Oxford
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Life at the (h)edge—Multidiversity in shrub ecotones is driven by habitat quality & shrub foliage cover 🌱🌏 To maximise biodiversity benefits across taxa, recommends managing shrub ecotones at the landscape scale, maintaining a mosaic of open & half-open shrub ecotones 📈🧪 🔗 doi.org/10.1111/1365...
This is such a beautiful video from Oslo Pride on how important it is to visibly be an LGBT+ ally. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVep...
TRYGG - Oslo Pride 2025
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*PLEASE HELP* Despite it being the most objected to planning application in Scottish history, the #FlamingoLand/Lomond Banks planning proposal won't go away. Experts say it would be bad for ancient woodland, bad for flooding & bad for many other reasons. But the developer is persistent. 1/3
The Greens now have nearly 200 more councillors than Reform. This is not something you'd be likely to guess from all the copiously salivating media coverage of Farage & his crew of billionaire-backed far-right chancers.
Chris Williams@chrisw100.bsky.social · last yr.Another record year for the Green Party 👏 859 Councillors on 170 Councils in England & Wales Now join us to keep Greens growing and to take the fight to Reform join.greenparty.org.uk
We've explored this in the TreE PlaNat research project www.wren-project.com/tree-planat.... - look out for upcoming resources out in May: ❔ FAQs on natural processes and hybrid approaches 🌱 Simple guidance on monitoring natural processes 📢 A research policy briefing summarising key messages
TreE PlaNat
TreE PlaNat: stakeholder perceptions and socio-ecological consequences of Treescape Expansion through Planting & Natural colonisation. A collaborative research applied research project, working with l...
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George Monbiot@georgemonbiot.bsky.social · last yr.When I tried to discuss this issue here, several forestry folk leapt up to say "it's not like that." One of them starkly misrepresented my position, going so far as to make up quotes to support his claims. Well it is "like that", and it's a major problem. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
📢 Calling Community Tree Nurseries 📢 New handbook to help identify, collect and store 30+ native tree & shrub species across the UK. A superb tool for #SeedCollectors and woodland restoration enthusiasts. Created by the Woodland Trust in partnership with Fellowship of the Trees. buff.ly/sozbufZ
Seeking fluffy guards in the name of science
Woodland Trust Scotland@wtscotsocial.bsky.social · last yr.We are trialling these new tree guards. 😀
Seed collection is vital for ecosystem restoration. This new guide aids ID and collection for over 30 native tree & shrub species so we can: 🧬 Capture and preserve genetic diversity 🌱 Fill gaps in tree supply 🌳 Meet vital woodland creation targets fellowshipofthetrees.org/growing-dive...
Just a reminder to anyone reading this PR piece - true wild camping is covered under access rights in Scotland and does not require paying a membership fee or any fee to landowners. Official government advice on where/how to wild camp responsibly here: www.outdooraccess-scotland.scot/doc/camping-...
Camping in Scotland
Scotland’s access legislation allows camping wherever access rights apply. This leaflet tells you all you need to know to enjoy camping responsibly.
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The Guardian@theguardian.com · last yr.New scheme to offer campers unprecedented access to wild spaces across Britain
Too often woods for conservation and woods for timber are at loggerheads (sorry). This project shows this doesn't need to be the case! www.gov.uk/government/c...
Dartmoor’s Future Forests: The Woodland Trust explores how developing the local wood economy can support woodland management
The Woodland Trust used the Woods into Management Forestry Innovation Fund to explore how developing the local wood economy can support woodland management.
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The Millennium Seed Bank is home to 13% of the worlds plants in seed form 🌍🌿😯
Supporting people and ecological restoration in a oner? Yes please... www.inkl.com/news/superla...
‘Superlarder’ to supply wild Scottish venison to food banks
IT’S a neat solution to two pressing problems: getting free, lean, healthy meat to food bank users, and at the same time cutting the vast herds of…
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🏡The shortage of affordable, accessible homes across Scotland's west coast is impacting our ability to expand & protect precious temperate rainforest. 👱♀️ You can help influence that. 👉 https://buff.ly/4b28rnK 📆 Closing date: 26 Feb 2025 @asrainforest.bsky.social @communitylandsc.bsky.social
We have teamed up with three other landowners at #LochArkaig to reawaken the landscape across an area of Lochaber that is larger than Edinburgh. The founding members of Beò Airceig are Achnacarry Estate, Arkaig Community Forest, Forestry and Land Scotland and Woodland Trust Scotland.🧵 1/4
🌳📢 New report out! Discover key principles & evidence on how woodland management & creation can boost biodiversity 🌿🐦 Read more! #Nature #Woodlands #Biodiversity www.forestresearch.gov.uk/news/143260-...
New report reviews management and creation of woodland for biodiversity and wider environmental benefits - Forest Research
Forest Research has published a new report which summarises the current evidence on how woodland management and creation affects biodiversity, ecosystem resilience and key environmental benefits.
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Great to be a #RewildingWin! We're chuffed to bits that what was only a dream back in 2017 is now coming to life. Partnership working works! More buff.ly/3WGFGqt
Rewilding Britain@rewildingbritain.org.uk · 2y ago#RewildingWin 3: 30,000ha to be restored by a community group and partners at Loch Arkaig, an area steeped in history and now on the path to becoming a flourishing landscape for people and wildlife. (4/7)
I'd quite like Rachel Reeves to experience this but with a few hundred copies of 'Prosperity without Growth'
a man is throwing papers in the air while sitting on a couch
Alt: a man (mr dursley) is drowning in letters in the air while sitting on a couch
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British Ecological Society@britishecologicalsociety.org · 2y agoNature is not a blocker to growth. The UK Chancellor Rachel Reeves has claimed that 'The balance has gone too far in the direction of always protecting every bat and every newt.' But how can this statement be true when the UK is one of the most nature depleted countries in the world?🌍
The underlying causes of biodiversity loss are: 1) the disconnection of people from nature & domination over nature & other people 2) the inequitable concentration of power & wealth 3) the prioritization of short-term individual & material gains #TransformationTuesday @ipbes.bsky.social
There's a job up in our #Conservation #Outcomes teamlet! If you're into #woodland conservation, restoration & management, and you've got #training & #facilitation skills, this could be for you! jobs.woodlandtrust.org.uk/vacancies/va...
Jobs at the Woodland Trust
The UK's largest woodland conservation charity. We want to see a UK rich in native woods and trees. For people. For wildlife. We can't achieve our vision without you.
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Did you miss #BES2024 and are you interested in #BiodiversityFutures? check the recording of this great session led by @drnickisaac.bsky.social, featuring talks by Damaris Zurell, Anita Lazurko, Andy Purvis, James Bullock, Greta Bocedi, Jennifer Border and myself. youtu.be/FkbS6Klzbdg?...
BES2024 Thematic Session - Biodiversity Futures: harnessing the power of scenarios and models
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Come and hear all you want to know about using natural processes for woodland creation in the UK! This has been a lush project with a lovely bunch of collaborators - don't miss our final webinar 🌱
Julia Koricheva@juliakoricheva.bsky.social · 2y agoWrap-up webinar of TreE PlaNat project 🌳 🌱 will take place on Jan 20th, 12.30-2 pm GMT. Project findings on socio-ecological consequences of woodland expansion through planting and natural colonisation will be discussed. Register here: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/b36709...
