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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.

  • Our landscape-scale conservation involves working closely with landowners and farmers to help mitigate climate change and bringing huge benefits to biodiversity and the economy.

    Credit: WTML

  • We work with schools to get more children learning in a woodland environment as part of our Lost Woods project in Sussex.

    Credit: Miles Davies/Sussex Wildlife Trust

  • Working closely with partners we're helping to save Scotland's rainforest, allowing species to thrive once again.

    Credit: Philip Price / scotlandbigpicture.com

  • We're planting 50 million trees, transforming the landscape of northern England.

    Credit: Jill Jennings / WTML

  • Planting trees on crofts can strengthen this fragile woodland network, while delivering multiple benefits for the crofter and the wider public, including improved productivity, business diversification, carbon capture and richer habitats.

    Credit: John Macpherson / WTML

  • In Northern Ireland, we're aiming to reconnect pockets of precious ancient woodland to allow them to thrive in the future.

    Credit: Tracey Dorman / WTML

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.

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.