Forestry Commission

Some £5m has been set aside to create a new forest on post-industrial land in Oldham.

Forest Research scientists and the head of the Forestry Commission’s Plant Health Service will address an important conference in April to raise awareness and understanding of tree diseases and pests.

The Forestry Commission has completed landscaping work at the Belfield community woodland, near Rochdale.

Pamela Warhurst has been appointed as chair of the Forestry Commission.

The Forestry Commission is supporting a 'back to nature' plan in Weardale which will see thousands of native trees take root and new wildlife habitats created.

Forestry Commission surveyors are starting work on what will be the most comprehensive record of information about Britain's woods and forests ever compiled.

Hard lessons learned in restoring some of the United Kingdom's long-lost forest cover over the past 100 years are being used to restore lost and degraded forests around the world, according to Britain's leading forester.

The Forestry Commission's Forest Research agency has been re-organised to give it a clearer focus on its priority work on forestry and climate change.

Millions of children from every school in the United Kingdom have been challenged to "get growing" a million trees in what might be the UK's highest-profile forestry communications campaign ever mounted.

An outbreak of the fungus-like plant disease Phytophthora ramorum - popularly known in the USA as 'sudden oak death' - has been found in a small number of rhododendron bushes the New Forest, the Forestry Commission has confirmed.