Press Releases from Royal Forestry Society (6 total)
#ForestDay: 5 Ways We Are Innovating
Thursday 21 March is the United Nation's International Day of Forests 2024 ( https://www.un.org/en/observances/forests-and-trees-day). This year the theme is 'Forests and Innovation: New Solutions for a Better World'. At the Royal Forestry Society we have been encouraging innovation in many ways.
Here are just five of those ways:
1 Helping Woodland Owners and Managers
Our Grants for Resilient Woodlands (https://rfs.org.uk/grants/grants-for-resilient-woodlands/ ) support RFS and Royal Scottish Forestry Society (RSFS ) members to create…
Royal Forestry Society Welcome for ELM Commitment
The Royal Forestry Society (RFS) welcomes the commitments from the new Environment Secretary, Steve Barclay, to bring the England Woodland Creation Offer (EWCO) and the Woodland Creation Planning Grant (WCPG) into new Environmental Land Management (ELM) Schemes.
The RFS also welcomes the uplift in grants to support woodland management, and hopes it will bring more woods into management.
RFS Chief Executive Christopher Williams said: "We welcome the certainty that EWCO and the…
Collaboration in the forestry sector creates opportunity for new graduate
The government’s targets for tree planting are ambitious and the strategic importance of woodland and forest management, the use of the best quality planting stock and engaging young foresters in the sector are becoming ever more critical. Tree improvement charity Future Trees Trust have recognised this and, with funding from the Patsy Wood Trust and working with the Royal Forestry Society, are collaborating to deliver the Patsy Wood Scholarship.
The Scholarship…
Where have your Wellies Taken You?
Have your wellies helped you explore woods, discover minibeasts, climb a tree, wade through forest streams, build a den or go on a woodland adventure?
To help celebrate the 20th anniversary of its Teaching Trees programme, the Royal Forestry Society is inviting children, schools and young people’s organisations to enter a free poetry competition inspired by Michael and Clare Morpurgo’s remarkable book Where My Wellies Take Me.
There are three categories Age…
Excellence in Forestry 2020 – from Wales to Northern Ireland
The Royal Forestry Society’s Excellence in Forestry Awards 2020 will be reaching across the Irish Sea for the first time as they seek to identify the very best in woodland management in Northern Ireland, the Isle of Man and Wales.
Urging owners and managers of woods of all sizes and those running woodland education and learning projects to take part, Excellence in Forestry Awards co-ordinator Rachel Thomas says: “At a time…
Added urgency: Woodland climate change adaptation
There is now added urgency to adapting our woodlands to climate change – according to a report charting the progress of a five-year plan.
Chair of the Forestry Climate Change Working Group (FCCWG), Simon Lloyd, said: “Since the Climate Change Adaptation Plan was published a year ago by the FCCWG there have been a number of high-level reports charting the speed of climate change together with the Government’s recognition that we…
