Looking forward to Chairing this Risk Management event on Tuesday ⬇️

Andy Kershaw: Former Radio 1 DJ and Live Aid presenter dies aged 66 The broadcaster was known for his eclectic taste and for helping champion world music on BBC Radio 1.

Big part of my musical and political education, and really shifted my horizons 💔

"We're not here to give the public what it wants. We're here to give the public what it didn't know it wanted".

www.bbc.com/news/article...

Instead of a pink door, perhaps they should’ve gone for an illuminated KFC advert

Dense forest with tall trees and lush greenery inviting nominations for the PEFC sustainable forest management working group.

🌳 PEFC is calling for nominations to join its Sustainable Forest Management Working Group.

We’re looking for representatives from industry, certification bodies, and civil society.

⏳ Apply by 22 April 2026

🔗 https://treee.es/sfm-wg-call26

#Forestry #SustainableForests #EUDR

🌳🍃🐄 Julie Botzas-Coluni just presented some results of the #AgroForageTreeProject at the European Grassland Federation conference in #Evora🇵🇹
#agroforestry #grasslands #EGF2026 @snsf.ch @agroscope.bsky.social

🌳 Forestry Youth Camp is a fully funded youth camp in Wales this summer for 18-21 y/o's from diverse/disadvantaged backgrounds to connect & learn about forestry.
Run in collaboration with Bangor University Forestry Department.

👉 Closing date is 30th April. Apply now:
https://ow.ly/QeXb50YJG1B

Community woodland trainees take next steps into forestry

This is a really useful graphic.
I wish it also showed the overseas land used to supply the 80% of the timber and forest products that the U.K. imports.
It should be on the wall of every Defra office, and attached to every new tree planting application.

Why small tree-planting schemes are disappearing across Scotland Small tree-planting projects are being squeezed out in Scotland as costs rise and grants fall behind, raising concerns over targets and climate…

This is a good article on an important forestry issue.
Whilst more money is always welcome - I also think we need a more risk adjusted approach to woodland creation vs other land management practices.
Having land-use silos of policy & regulation doesn’t help

www.heraldscotland.com/news/2601004...

Construction waste to aviation fuel as Sumitomo Forestry and Rengo launch bioethanol venture Sumitomo Forestry and Rengo announced on April 1st the establishment of RS Wood Refinery, a joint venture that will produce bioethanol, a feedstock used in Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF), using…

Sumitomo Forestry and Rengo announced on April 1st the establishment of RS Wood Refinery, a joint venture that will produce bioethanol, a feedstock used in Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF), using wood-based construction waste generated in Japan.
www.patiencerealty.com/post/constru...

Systems - Ecosystems Technologies Ecosystems Technologies has pioneered the manufacture of homegrown mass timber products. Market perception held that UK sourced timber could not be commercially viable in the production of CLT and other associated engineered products.

And about the manufacturing process here ⬇️.
If we want to build more homes like this, then we need to grow more timber.

Frustrating that organisations like @royalsoced.bsky.social are unable to see the connection 🤷🏽‍♀️

ecosystemstech.com/systems/

Some more info here www.social-bite.co.uk/what-we-do/h...

Social Bite opens village for homeless people in Rutherglen Harriet Gardens in Rutherglen will cater for 15 people at a time, with each person staying in a nest home.

More #HomeGrownHomes
🌲🏘️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
This time from Matt Stevenson’s ECOSystem Technologies using Scottish cross laminated #timber
#Forestry

www.bbc.com/news/article...

Ecosystems Technologies are doing some really interesting work with Social Bite with high quality timber homes www.social-bite.co.uk/what-we-do/h...

Top morning with the team showing First Minister John Swinney and a good few media folk the MAKAR affordable housing prototype. We had plenty of time to discuss what it would take to takes this… | Jer... Top morning with the team showing First Minister John Swinney and a good few media folk the MAKAR affordable housing prototype. We had plenty of time to discuss what it would take to takes this brilli...

Home grown homes 🌲🏘️
#forestry #Scotland

www.linkedin.com/posts/jeremy...

If you go to Facebook you can comment on the U.S. Forest Service’s recent post. They’re calling out our movement because major businesses are now speaking up and that’s got them rattled. They’re spreading lies to sell you on their demolition of the Forest Service. Don’t buy it.

Pioneers of outdoor education: Davina Bowers, head of the forest nursery & junior schools at Merchiston in Edinburgh, and Louise Licznerski founder of Little Bugs, which operates outdoor nurseries for nursery and primary children in West Lothian and Fife, will be outlining the many benefits of outdoor learning and how this can be extended to include primary-school pupils at this SEDA Land event on 29 April. Both Davina and Louise have been running forest school nurseries for several years and will describe their different approaches to expanding outdoor learning to primary school education, as well as how learning out-of-doors can galvanise the imagination of each individual child. They will also explain how risky play helps build resilience and confidence among younger children and fosters an understanding of sustainability and stewardship of the environment. Better Outdoors? aims to persuade local authorities and The Scottish Government to systematically roll out outdoor learning across the Scottish education system. Louise is founding director of the Scottish Outdoor Learning Association (Sola). Other speakers at the event include Alexia Barrable, PhD senior in education at Queen Margaret University and Carol Murdoch. 📅 Wednesday 29th April 2026: in person 5-8pm, online 5:30-7:30pm 📌 Augustine United Church, George IV Bridge, Edinburgh 🤑 Free to attend

The Forest at Merchiston headteacher Davina Bowers and Little Bugs founder Louise Licznerski will explain the merits of outdoor learning and how it can be rolled out more widely

📅 29 April: in person 5-8pm, online 5:30-7:30pm
📌 Augustine Utd Church, Edinburgh

Full details seda.scot/seda-land-gr...

Poster for SEDA Land event on Wednesday 29 April 2026 Forest schools and outdoor nurseries are becoming more prevalent in Scotland and their benefits are well-known, so why are they not being systematically rolled out or integrated into the Scottish education system? Join us for a conversation covering the benefits of outdoor learning, both at primary and secondary level, and how local authorities and the Scottish government can be persuaded to recognise the part it could play in a more enlightened curriculum. Outdoor learning is not limited to rural schools. We will explain how, with a little imagination, it can be done in a tarmacked playground. This will be an informal discussion with leading UK educationalists and practitioners – including nursery school managers and rangers. Panel: Alexia Barrable, senior lecturer in education, Queen Margaret University Carol Murdoch, founder, Love Outdoor Learning Davina Bowers, head, the Forest Nursery and Junior School at Merchiston Castle School, Edinburgh Louise Licznerski, founder, Little Bugs Nursery, Fife Jo Cooke, ranger, Midlothian Council Rob Heasman, Beeslack High School, Midlothian Chair: Gail Halvorsen, chair SEDA Land

Better Outdoors? An event on outdoor learning both at primary and secondary level, and how ScotGov and local authorities might be persuaded to get behind it. An informal discussion with some of Scotland’s top practitioners.

📌 Augustine United Church
📆 29 April, in-person and online
🤑 Free to attend

Webinar: Understanding drought risk for UK woodland creation and forestry - Forest Research Hear about new research on how rising drought risk is reshaping UK forestry and the tools being developed to support climate‑smart woodland creation.

This upcoming webinar on 21 April will share the latest insights and tools being developed to support more climate-smart decisions.

Reserve your place here: www.forestresearch.gov.uk/news/webinar...

Nice pigs - For leather ?
If you are in that part of the world, and you have time, it might be worth contacting www.lornasingleton.co.uk/oak-spelk-ba...

Hard to understand how "temporary" billboard advertising is allowed, but woe betide someone painting their Edinburgh New Town front door the wrong shade of pink ...

Always interesting to see at what point in forestry/timber economic cycles that forestry companies vertically integrate and invest in machinery or "direct labour" - and similarly sawmills investing in forestry land.

Join our BIO2REG webinar “Forestry and Forest‑Based Industry: Advancing Regional #Bioeconomy Transitions”

📅 27 April 2026
⏰ 11:00 AM
👉 bio2reg.eu/2026/03/16/f...

With contributions by @bioeast-hub.bsky.social #HAZI Fundazioa @bioeast-b4b.bsky.social #RISE #EFI @czuvpraze.bsky.social

#forestry

GitHub - protect-earth/website Contribute to protect-earth/website development by creating an account on GitHub.

Calling all Astro.js developers. My rewilding charity @protect.earth has been trying to replace a horrible Squarespace site with an API powered data centric website. Need a few volunteers to get this over the line. Grab an issue if you can! 🙏🏼 github.com/protect-eart...

This charity has only ever hit the levels of national success on such a shoestring budget from amazing donations from my old tech friends guilty about things like working on overthrowing democracy at Facebook.

In these now difficult times you don’t have cash to spare but maybe you have a few hours

Good thread about curlews on my home turf in the north east of Wales.

The only way forward is to have more open and honest dialogue with everyone included.

Focus needs to be on finding solutions and not just the usual finding fault.

Great thread - this diversity of landuse is the big change and it’s in only a few decades, as you say it is much more homogeneous now and some of those fields will be cut for early silage.
It is easier to blame foxes or crows or forestry …

I'm looking forward to Chairing the event on Risk Management on the 21st April - sign up link below

Four seasons in one afternoon in Edinburgh - heavy sleet to rainbows to blue skies

Easter Rising Centenary - BBC Newsnight YouTube video by BBC Politics

110th anniversary of the Easter Rising. Ten years ago made this piece for Newsnight (one of my first!) for the 100th. Hard to believe just how much has been packed into Anglo-Irish relations, how much has changed, even since then. Much for the worse. youtu.be/RmaIOG9-BBk?...