We recently noticed that quite a few myForest users have registered for both an agent account to manage their clients, and a business account to promote their business. Rather than use two separate accounts, we thought it would be easier if users could access business functions from their agent accounts. From now on then, all users of…
Kirsty Monk, our Sylva Scholar, has joined forces with a local school to bring science to life for the children, and in return they will help Kirsty in her studies. Kirsty, in collaboration with Mrs Geerthi Ahilan, Science co-ordinator at St Ebbe’s C.E. (Aided) Primary School have won a Royal Society Partnership Grant, worth £2896…
Sarah Simblet, Sylva’s Artist in Residence, has completed her first drawing. It will be featured in The New Sylva book to be published by Bloomsbury in 2014. She talks about the work on the author’s dedicated book blog at www.NewSylva.com
Lucius Cary OBE has joined the board of trustees of the Sylva Foundation. Lucius is the founder and managing director of Oxford Technology Management Ltd, which has specialised in making and managing investments in start-up technology-based businesses since 1983. He has a degree in engineering and economics from Oxford University, an MBA from Harvard Business…
A major milestone was reached earlier this week when the area of woodland mapped on our myForest service exceeded 10,000 hectares. The 10,000ha of woodland on myForest has been registered by some 475 different owners across Britain. Despite this achievement we are only looking forward, in exploring how best we can support Britain’s woodland owners…
The three hundredth tree was adopted under our TreeWatch initiative over the Christmas period. Most adopted trees are located in the UK but there are some also in France, Italy and Spain. Other news in TreeWatch is the successful completion of our Pear Rust survey with the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) during 2011. The data…
Dr Sarah Simblet has been appointed Sylva’s first Artist in Residence. During her two year residency Sarah will be producing a unique catalogue of drawings celebrating our forests and trees. These will be featured in a major new tree book to be published in 2014, supported by the Sylva Foundation. Sarah will co-author the book…
A student who won a national prize to have his seat design made into a piece of furniture from the OneOak tree has returned to the National School of Furniture at Oxford & Cherwell Valley College (OCVC). This time he came with classmates from the Arden School in Solihull, to see how his winning design…
Sylva has developed close ties with the Department of Plant Sciences at the University of Oxford: we have a Sylva Scholar currently working towards a DPhil (read more) and regularly collaborate on projects, including the new State of British Woodlands survey. We are therefore delighted to promote the good news that funding has come together…
A major report has been released today: The State of the UK’s Forests, Woods and Trees: Perspectives from the forestry and woodland sector. It marks the International Year of Forests in 2011. The State of the UK’s Forests, Woods and Trees report was led by the Woodland Trust and written in collaboration with 19 other…
