New research exploring attitudes to deer control in England and Wales has revealed broad support for deer management, with the majority strongly in favour of lethal control. All six species of deer have increased in density and range over the past 40 years. As populations have grown, so too has their impact on woodland habitats,…
Last week our Director of Operations, Paul Orsi, was lucky enough to be invited to speak at Hooke Park in Dorset as part of their Future Forest seminar.
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.
Sylva Foundation CEO Dr Gabriel Hemery reflects on the centenary conference of the Institute of Chartered Foresters.
The myForest team are excited to announce the latest enhancement to the myForest user interface. The mapping tools have been relocated to the right of your screen for easier access to key mapping features. The menus for base maps and data layers now stay docked to the right of your screen, avoiding the issue of…
An innovative new project known as Biodiverse Farm Canopies (BFC) has been launched to support biodiversity uplift in England’s woodlands. By enhancing woodland condition through effective long-term management plans, owners can generate valuable biodiversity units, opening a new revenue stream while contributing to local nature recovery.
The myForest team were delighted to be asked to speak in the ConFor tent for a talk titled ‘Linking the wood-chain through collaboration and technology’
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…
The new myForest Inventory functionality is the result of a two year partnership with Northwoods Innovation Programme and significantly improves the ability of myForest users to calculate and store woodland inventory information.
Catch-up on the Woodland Management Planning webinar with Sylva Foundation, Cumbria Woodlands and Evolving Forests.