Research report
State of the UK's Woods and Trees 2021
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Landscape-scale conservation
Working together with communities, partners, farmers and landowners across whole landscapes brings greater benefits to people and wildlife.
We'll work together to look beyond individual sites, connecting habitats across entire regions.
Habitat restoration and woodland expansion across landscapes will play a huge role in addressing the threats we face from climate change and biodiversity loss.
That's where our Treescapes programme comes in. We're working together with partners, landowners and communities to make the landscape-scale changes needed to take us into the future. We're restoring, protecting and creating woodland in focus areas across the UK, planting trees in the right place, and rekindling our love and connection with woods and wildlife at a local level.
What we're doing
Working across entire landscapes takes enormous collaborative input, but brings extraordinary benefits for nature, people and the economy...
Restoring ancient woodland
Working in partnership with over 600 landowners and managers, we're protecting and restoring thousands of hectares of fragile ancient woodland across the UK.
Increasing tree cover
We're promoting the vast expansion of native woodland cover through planting and natural regeneration to make space for nature and fight the effects of climate change.
Making space for nature
Nature-friendly habitats will be connected within networks of hedgerows and trees allowing species to thrive and halting the decline in wildlife.
Explore our work
We're focusing on priority areas across the UK.
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Croft Woodlands
Growing trees in the north and west of Scotland presents both unique challenges and benefits. Our Croft Woodlands advisory team helps crofters, smallholders and common grazings to create and manage woodlands that will flourish.
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Faughan Valley Woodlands: from fragments to thriving forests
The Faughan Valley Woodlands project aims to reconnect pockets of ancient woodland, allowing them to become more resilient and thrive in the future.
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Lost Woods of the Low Weald and Downs
We're bringing life back to neglected and fragmented ancient woods in Sussex to boost biodiversity and revitalise woodland skills.
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Restoring Devon's wooded landscape
We're working to restore Devon's fragmented woodland landscape to its former glory.
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Saving Scotland's rainforest
We're working to ensure Scotland’s rainforests thrive once again. As part of the Alliance for Scotland’s Rainforest, we're on a mission to protect and enhance this globally important habitat for the special wildlife that depends upon it.
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The Northern Forest
The North of England has significantly less woodland cover than the rest of the country, but not for much longer. With our partners we are planting 50 million trees and transforming the landscape of northern England.
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Trees for farms in the East Anglian Claylands
The landscape of the East Anglian Claylands is at the forefront of fighting tree disease, climate change, and biodiversity loss. We’re calling all farmers and landowners to help create a resilient landscape, where trees and woods thrive for farming and wildlife.
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Connecting and protecting Welsh woods and trees
With support from Players of People’s Postcode Lottery, the Dyfi to Dwyryd project aims to expand and connect more trees and wooded habitats on a landscape scale – to improve biodiversity in mid Wales and beyond.
The evidence behind our conservation work
Our work is guided by science and, in turn, continues to build and improve on the evidence base for the future.
Explore further
We adopt a holistic, landscape-scale approach in many areas of our work.
Protecting trees and woods
Restoring ancient woodland
Find out how our restoration work is encouraging ancient woodland to recover and reverse years of decline.
Plant trees
Trees for landowners and farmers
If you’re looking to plant trees, we have the trees, grants and funding schemes to help.
Trees woods and wildlife
Tree pests and diseases
Learn more about the pests and diseases threatening our trees. Find out how to spot them, the symptoms and outlook, and how you can help.
Climate change
Climate change
Our message is clear: native woods and trees are one of the best ways to tackle the climate crisis. Explore the facts and find out what you can do to help.
Protecting trees and woods
Campaign with us
Together we can stand up for the environment and safeguard the UK's woodland heritage for our future.