nurturing a wood culture, growing a future

Cathrin Poppensieker

Welcome to our new Woodworking and Gender Project Coordinator

We are delighted to welcome Cathrin (Cat) Poppensieker to the Sylva team. Cat will lead our new Woodworking and Gender Project, funded by The National Heritage Lottery Fund and other generous supporters. The project aims to address the significant gender imbalance in the heritage woodworking sector. The project envisions a transformed woodworking industry, driven by…

Person using a digital app to survey a woodland

Data standards for forestry in the UK

We are increasingly embedded in the digital forest: on-line grant applications; drone based surveys; in-forest scanning; map based management platforms; in-harvester data collection; the list goes on. We at  Sylva Foundation have been innovators in this space; in particular with our flagship web platform myForest supporting woodland creation and management since the early days of…