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The Woodland Trust is the largest woodland conservation charity in the United Kingdom and is concerned with the creation, protection, and restoration of native woodland heritage. It has planted over 68 million trees since 1972. [ 4 ]
The SSSI is part of a 153.2-hectare (379-acre) site, also called Bisham Woods, which has been owned and managed by the Woodland Trust since 1990. [6] The woods [7] consist of several sections. The northern part is the ancient woodland SSSI, with compartments known as Quarry Wood, Fultness Wood, High Wood and Inkydown Wood.
The wood, area 80 hectares (200 acres), was once owned by Pershore Abbey.In recent times it was purchased by the Trust from the Forestry Commission. [2]Work is done to restore ancient woodland where formerly it was managed by the Forestry Commission as a commercial plantation; the conifer plantations are being converted to broad-leaved woodland, which include oak, ash, hazel blackthorn and ...
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The Woodland Trust monitors local wildlife, and found that many species' populations more than doubled between 2010 and 2016, as the forest expanded substantially. [7] Short-eared owls and barn owls returned for the area for the first time in a decade, and several entirely new species were attracted. [ 7 ]
The Glen Finglas Estate was acquired by the Woodland Trust Scotland in 1996 [12] and is open to the public. The Woodland Trust has restored ancient woodland and created the Great Trossachs Path, one of Scotland's Great Trails, across the estate.
Whereas native woodland occurs more naturally and develops over time, to offer a greater variety of species, ages, structure and light. Since active woodland management started, the site has ...
The Last Ent of Affric is an ancient elm in the Scottish Highlands, [1] designated a Tree of National Special Interest (TNSI) [2] by the Woodland Trust and named Scotland's Tree of the Year in 2019. [3] [4] It is probably the last surviving tree of an ancient forest, and by virtue of its isolation has remained safe from Dutch elm disease. [2]