Flood mitigation work is key. More woodland/peat/rewilding on hills and uplands to slow the flow. More beavers throughout the watercourse. Every single study proves this will help farmers out, but many have been vehemently against it. Hopefully now we can all progress together.

Take 5 minutes & read this inspiring story of how a community group became the owners of Glenan Wood in Argyll. Spoken through the eyes of a local resident, it’s a brilliant example of how community empowerment can bring #ScotlandsRainforest back to life buff.ly/43VqeJC

Protect Earth's mission is to save the endangered Black Poplar tree in the UK. With less than 7,000 remaining, action is needed. Protect Earth has a high success rate in planting Black Poplars. Learn more and together we can make a difference! 🌱 buff.ly/3wsZrYu

Woodland Trust Scotland launch reforestation of Gleann Shìldeag estate, Torridon, NW Highlands, where 500,000 mixed native trees will be planted across 346 hectares

Ben Shìldeag currently hosts a pine rainforest and a birch rainforest, across 100 ha

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This street will now be 10c hotter in climate heat, in floods the houses will suffer, more health problems & absent wildlife. Most streets in the uk are 1 by 1, incrementally, losing their mature trees for commerce/insurance/ 'disease' claims. Nowhere for birds. Suburban ecocide.

Mulgrave Estate, North Yorks Moors, plans to plant 300,000 trees over 550 acres in one of the largest private woodland creation projects in the North East

Woodland currently makes up 16% of the estate’s 15,000 acres

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What a weekend! 🌳 1,371 trees planted in two days! Huge shoutout to the landowners, our dedicated crew of 20 volunteers, and the Protect Earth team for making it happen! 🌱🌎

Scottish Water is creating a new 62 acre woodland in Fife, Scotland, on former grazing land, planting 48,000 mixed native broadleaf trees to recreate natural habitat

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4 Tiny Forests to be created across Wrexham by Wrexham Council with [email protected]

The project is funded by the Coetiroedd Bach: Tiny Forests in Wales scheme

Work has started on the first site at Ysgol Bro Alun with the other three planting in autumn

wrexham.com/news/four-dens…

The new 'Wild Pine Project' by Trees for LIfe and Woodland Trust Scotland will seek out and protect 'lost' remaining fragments of Scotland's ancient native Caledonian pine forest across Argyll, Highlands and Aberdeenshire.

Gaelic place-names offer clues
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Very cool: trees are stalling the effects of global heating in eastern USA, study finds

Vast reforestation has been a major reason for the ‘warming hole’ across parts of US where temperatures have flatlined or cooled
theguardian.com/environment/20…

The first of 300,000 trees have been planted on Marsden Moor, South Pennines, W. Yorkshire to reduce flooding.

865 acres of woodland will be created in the next 5 years on National Trust and Yorkshire Water Land in the Landscapes for Water Programme

bbc.co.uk/news/uk-englan…

Silverton village, Devon mourns the loss of its beloved 700 year old oak tree 'The Broad Oak' which fell over on 25th January following the recent storms to hit the county

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' Amid the climate storm, we must act to save our (Scotland's) pinewoods and forests.

Native woodland restoration is not a ‘nice to have’, it’s an essential response to the climate emergency playing out now.'

by Ariane Burgess MSP, Highlands & Islands

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70,000 acorns were collected from heritage oaks across Yorkshire by volunteers with 50,000 now growing at Leeds City Council's Arium tree nursery

The saplings will used by the The White Rose Forest project aiming to plant 7 million trees by 2025 across Yorks

bbc.co.uk/news/uk-englan…

Study by Treeconomics Ltd estimates the value of West Midland's 5 million trees at £70 billion

The trees play a vital role, annually storing 57,000 tonnes of carbon, removing 200,000 tonnes of airborne pollutants and absorbing 1.5 million m3 of rainwater
wmca.org.uk/news/study-rev…

Ribble Rivers Trust is to plant 500,000 trees in Lancashire, but has relied on external growers and imported seeds. The Trust is establishing community tree nurseries to become self-sustaining and use seeds from local ancient woodlands as the foundation
lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/news/24073980.…

After 2 year campaign, residents of Birkby, Huddersfield, West Yorkshire are pleased with Forestry Commission order that 473 trees must be replanted before June 2025 and maintained for 10 years, following unauthorised tree clearance on private land yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/environme…

A community group, Friends of Broughtonknowe, formed by a small group of nature loving dog walkers, are set to buy a 140 acre forest in the Scottish Borders for £875,000

The group has been granted money from the Scottish Land Fund for the buyout

bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotla…

We've barely started 2024 and the TREE NEWS ALREADY LOOK GRIM, we already know of threats to 2 mature trees on Parkland Walk , 3 beech trees in Tottenham & more trees @woodburydown Will this year be a felling record Haringey Council & Hackney Council?? We hope not. Ham&High