Thanks to the support of the Dulverton Trust, any donation made via the Big Give between 29th November – 2nd December will be doubled! Please consider supporting us next week during this unique opportunity for our charity.
Sylva Foundation is supporting the 2017 Charter for Trees, Woods and People, by capturing the stories of woodland owners. We want to ensure that the Charter speaks for them, and recognises their vital role as custodians of the nation’s woodland heritage.
If you are a woodland owner or custodian please consider taking part. The simple online consultation will take only a few minutes to complete. Your woodland will be registered by county in the 2017 Charter.
In February Sylva’s Director for Forestry, Paul Orsi, visited Argyll to find out how the myForest service could help an innovative group of woodlands owners. A new suite of tools has now been developed and is being piloted by the Argyll Small Wood Co-operative.
The National Forest was humming with discussions about woodland management and forest education at the latest myForest for Education training workshop.
Thanks to support from FC Scotland and a strong drive for collaboration between owners of small woodlands in Argyll, we are piloting new co-operation tools within the myForest Service. If you run, or want to run, a co-operative for small woodland owners we’d love to hear from you.
A small cheer was heard in our forestry team this week when the area of woodland across the UK supported by our myForest service topped 40,000 hectares (100,000 acres)
In partnership with the National Forest Company, the Sylva Foundation recently ran a successful one day myForest for Education workshop for Forest School Leaders and woodland owners.
This year the Sylva Foundation is delighted to be a supporter of Scotland’s Finest Woods Award. The award chimes perfectly with the recent expansion of the support we offer to Scottish woodland owners through the myForest service.
Sylva are please to promote an important new project that will provide support for owners of Atlantic woodland. Find out about free one day workshops for land managers, run by Plantlife.
Forestry Commission Scotland, Royal Scottish Forestry Society and the Sylva Foundation have come together to help foster sustainable forest management in Scotland. From today a suite of dedicated forest management tools are available to support woodland owners and managers in Scotland via the Sylva Foundation’s myForest service. Forestry Commission Scotland have made available their new…