Online evening lectures from the Royal Scottish Forestry Society

24th Nov: Treekeepers:
Award-winning author, Lauren E Oakes

8 Dec: Three Words for Forest:
Prof Deirdre Heddon

19 January: Silvohorticulture:
Farming and gardening pioneer Ben Raskin

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We are now part of the Global Ecology starter pack 3.

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BIG NEWS! We’ve found that ash trees are fighting back against ash dieback disease! 🌳💪

Scientists at Kew & QMUL ‪@qmul.bsky.social have discovered that young ash trees are evolving resistance to this devastating fungus - & fast 🌍

Read the story👉 www.kew.org/read-and-wat...

#PlantScience #SciNews

Sound, Nature and Wellbeing in Ageing The state of our wellbeing has a profound impact on our quality of life. This conference will focus on how sound and nature can inspire wellbeing in both older people and those receiving care.

We’re live. @sagesound.bsky.social www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/events/briti...

The Wonder Of Trees WEB Master 4k h264 mp4 The Wonder of Treescapes blends poetry from Helen Mort and documentary to showcase interdisciplinary research from the Future of UK Treescapes - and how rese...

It's coming! 🌳🎉🎬

Our documentary, The Wonder of Treescapes, will premiere on YouTube on the 10th July, 6pm BST.

Put the date in your diary, click the 'notify me' button on YouTube, and please share to your network. Together we can save our trees 🤝🌳

Using participatory scenario planning to explore the synergies and trade‐offs from upland treescape expansion Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog.

Our #interdisciplinary paper investigating the synergies and trade-offs of upland treescape expansion is now out in @peopleandnature.bsky.social which is part of the STAND @uktreescapes.bsky.social project led by the @rspb.bsky.social

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Do grants for woodland managers work in the way they should? 🍃

This Impact and Insight Note from The Future of UK Treescapes' DiversiTree project reveals what woodland managers think about grant-making structures.

Read more over on LinkedIn 👇

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How can we make sure having more trees meets the needs of individuals, society and the natural world? A treescape is any landscape with a tree in it - rural or urban. Trees are an essential part of our social, cultural, economic and environmental ecosystems. Our homes, communities and wildlife are uni...

Involve's recent project Our Future Treescapes with @uktreescapes.bsky.social brought together citizens from all four nations of the UK to agree their priorities for tree planting and maintenance at local and national levels.

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Last day of #listening to nature sounds for the residents of this care home - and we leave them with a CD of #SAGESOUNDS (as well as stickers and a certificate). @allgoodenough.bsky.social @bbcradio3bot.bsky.social

Our latest Impact & Insights Note from the Treescapes project, Voices of the Future, looks at a new kind of #pedagogy that can help children understand nature and grow into adults that work alongside nature rather than against it.

#education

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New forest to be created in west of England, with 20m trees planted by 2050 Western Forest will cover 2,500 hectares across Wiltshire, Gloucestershire, Somerset and Bristol A new Western Forest is to be created across a swathe of the west of England from the Cotswolds to the Mendips, the government has said. The project, one of the government’s promised national forests, will create 2,500 hectares (6,200 acres) of woodland by 2030 across five priority areas in Wiltshire, Gloucestershire, Somerset and Bristol, with plans to plant 20m trees by 2050. Continue reading...

Western Forest will cover 2,500 hectares across Wiltshire, Gloucestershire, Somerset and Bristol

A new Western Forest is to be created across a swathe of the west of England from the Cotswolds to the Mendips, the government has said.

The project, one of the government’s promised national forests,…

Have so enjoyed our first block of @sagesound.bsky.social testing natural sound interventions with care home residents, who have been so generous in their collaboration with us 💚

Sound, Nature and Wellbeing in Ageing The state of our wellbeing has a profound impact on our quality of life. This conference will focus on how sound and nature can inspire wellbeing in both older people and those receiving care.

Thanks to the @britishacademy.bsky.social for funding a sound and wellbeing conference this September 11th and 12th at @uniofglos.bsky.social in Gloucestershire www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/events/briti... @allgoodenough.bsky.social

This week has also seen the publication of a new paper from the Treescapes project - urging an embracing of epistemological and methodological diversity in order to advance recent shifts in environmental education that call for alternative spaces for learning...

#EduSky #AcademicSky #EnvironmentSky

Go team! sageproject.co.uk

Understanding Memory of UK Treescapes for Better Resilience and Adaptation (MEMBRA) An overview of the MEMBRA project, selected as one of the research projects to receive funding from the first UK Treescapes call. MEMBRA will study epigeneti...

MEMBRA - part of UK treescapes - studies epigenetic changes from stress and whether these changes are passed down through generations in UK tree species.

Dr Estrella Luna-Diez explains what MEMBRA does.

#forests #sustainability

A man dressed in brown and khaki hugging an enormous chinkapin oak, Quercus muehlenbergii. Source: Katherine Shaw

I have a suggestion for you. In times of trouble and strife, there is therapeutic benefit in being among trees and in physical contact with them. So if you can, go hug a tree today, the bigger the better. This huge old chinkapin oak is known as The Great God Tree.

🌳 @uktreescapes.bsky.social project Branching Out talk lessons learnt and informing urban policy through tree value mapping 👇

Our new handbook for growing human-nature community relationships is launched today!

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Join @uktreescapes.bsky.social project 🌳TreE PlaNat🌲 for their wrap up webinar

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We've just joined Bluesky. If you are interested in how trees and forests can help #biodiversity and mitigate #climatechange, please follow us.

We'll be sharing the latest research emerging from our programme over the next eight months, as well as an amazing documentary showing why #trees matter.