Sylva on BBC Radio this Sunday
Our Chief Executive, Dr Gabriel Hemery, is talking on BBC Radio Oxford on Sunday morning.
nurturing a wood culture, growing a future
School children designing furniture
Children from all our OneOak partner schools have completed their next design workshop with students from Rycotewood Furniture Centre.
Updated myForest image system
The image management system of myForest has been given a major overhaul. Woodland owners can upload and manage photos of their woodlands and woodland agents and business users can upload logos for use on the site. Users can now upload images in PNG, GIF or JPEG format and large images are resized for efficient use.
OneOak talk: using science and art to revive Britain’s wood culture
Sylva’s CEO Dr Gabriel Hemery is giving a talk on Monday 29th November at Oxford’s Botanic Gardens.
myForest in the news
Farmers and landowners in south Oxfordshire are being encouraged to join a project to improve the management of their woodlands. Oxford Times, November 4th 2010.
New myForest woodland owner interface
A new and upgraded myForest woodland user account home page has been launched today. Users can start using the new page as soon as they log in to their accounts. The new page has been designed to be more intuitive to use and to give a better overview of mapped woodlands by offering an interactive…
200 woodland owners using myForest
he 200th woodland owner signed up to our myForest service today and mapped their woodland.
Carbon footprint website launched
A new website has been launched for the Wood Footprinter Methodology and Toolkit Research Project. Sylva is a main partner in the project.
email newsletter launched
We are pleased to announce the launch of an email newsletter service. We have always provided subscription to our blog and publication feeds via RSS but some market research told us that very few people use it, or even know what it is (RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication). So we have now enabled anyone…
5000 hectares of woodlands mapped on myForest
Sylva’s myForest Service continues to go from strength to strength. This month the total area of woodlands mapped by woodland owners or agents exceeded 5300 hectares. It was also exciting to see woodlands in Northern Ireland appearing on the webmap for the first time, together with further interest in Scotland.