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We are pleased to announce another exciting collaboration between Sylva Foundation and the Forestry Commission, supporting woodland creation across England through the provision of historic environment data layers in myForest. myForest users can now access the ‘Historic Environment Opportunity Map for New Woodland’, which was launched by the Forestry Commission last year. The composite layer…
A report has been published presenting results from a national survey exploring attitudes, experiences and actions among private land managers in relation to environmental change.
Knowing what is growing in your woodland is of critical importance for sustainable woodland management. For the uninitiated, the multitude of technical terms for the different sorts of data that can be recorded, and the different ways in which individual trees and stands can be measured, may seem daunting. We’ve created this guide to simplify…
CEO Dr Gabriel Hemery recently attended a two-day conference bringing together leading researchers, practitioners and policymakers to dig deep into the science and stories behind UK Treescapes.
We’re excited to be working with Forest Research on an exciting new project called Living Layers, to investigate how woodland structure influences biodiversity. Living Layers is a new project added to the line-up in Forest Lab, part of myForest. It is aimed at woodland owners and managers. By sharing basic information about their woodland, researchers…
Woodland owners and managers across the country are being asked to help expand a GB-wide network of pheromone traps. Taking part will help improve understanding of the eight-toothed spruce bark beetle, Ips typographus, and will further develop the early warning system preventing the establishment and potential spread of this damaging pest. The Forest Lab Pest…
The 2025 edition of the British Woodlands Survey is now live, exploring environmental change and resilience. Please take part and have your say in this important national survey.
Sylva Foundation is delighted to announce the launch of the UKFS Checker tool. UKFS Checker is designed to enable woodland owners and managers throughout the UK to carry out a sustainability self-assessment of their woodland stewardship. An intuitive and informative tool which is built into myForest, the UKFS Checker has been designed as an easy to use introduction to the complexities of the UKFS.
A report of a national survey published today reveals views among private land managers to public access in woodlands
Scientists at Forest Research and Aberystwyth University, in partnership with Sylva Foundation, are asking woodland owners and managers to take part in an important new research project aiming to monitor the health of oak trees across the UK.