{"id":7055,"date":"2015-08-28T13:45:33","date_gmt":"2015-08-28T12:45:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sylva.org.uk\/blog\/?p=7055"},"modified":"2015-08-28T13:45:33","modified_gmt":"2015-08-28T12:45:33","slug":"myforest-supports-three-thousand-woodland-stewards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sylva.org.uk\/myforest-supports-three-thousand-woodland-stewards\/","title":{"rendered":"myForest supports three thousand woodland stewards"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_7056\" style=\"width: 275px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sylva.org.uk\/myforest\/stats\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7056\" class=\"wp-image-7056 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/sylva.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/myForest_Aug2015-265x300.png\" alt=\"myForest mapped woodlands, August 2015\" width=\"265\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-7056\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">myForest mapped woodlands, August 2015. Click to view live stats.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>More than 3000 people are using online tools provided by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.myforest.org.uk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">myForest service<\/a> to help bring woodlands into good economic and environmental condition across the UK.<\/p>\n<p>The three thousandth user is a major milestone for the service that was launched in 2010. Since then there has been steady uptake of these tools by woodland stewards, as indicated with some 38,000 hectares (86,000 acres) of woodland mapped.<\/p>\n<p>This is a significant area yet, in relation to the total area of UK woodlands that are owned privately<sup>1<\/sup>, it equates to under 2% of the total.<\/p>\n<p>There is evidently much more to be done to support the stewards of woodlands, right across the UK. There are also nations and regions where uptake of myForest has been less evident.<\/p>\n<p>Working in partnership with others the myForest team are developing some exciting plans and activities to bring the benefits of the myForest service to more areas of the UK. Interest from new partners and supporters is always welcomed.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><small>1.\u00a0 Privately-owned woodlands represent 72% of UK forest area or 2,268,000 ha. Forestry Commission Statistics, 2014.<\/small><\/p>\n<h3>Live Statistics<\/h3>\n<p>You can view live stats for the myForest service at any time: <a href=\"http:\/\/sylva.org.uk\/myforest\/stats\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">click here<\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7058\" style=\"width: 769px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"sylva.org.uk\/myforest\/stats\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7058\" class=\"wp-image-7058 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/sylva.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/myForest_area_Aug2015.png\" alt=\"myForest area August 2015\" width=\"759\" height=\"462\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-7058\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Area of woodland registered on myForest, August 2015<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than 3000 people who care for Britain&#8217;s woodlands are using the myForest service to map their resource, and rely on its online tools to help bring them into good economic and environmental condition. However, there is much more work to be done . . .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":7056,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[256],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sylva.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/myForest_Aug2015.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sylva.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7055"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sylva.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sylva.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sylva.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sylva.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sylva.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7055\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sylva.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sylva.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sylva.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sylva.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}