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Articles tagged with: Woodland
Government Urged To Boost Support For Killing 'Menace' Grey Squirrels
Environment
Government Urged To Boost Support For Killing "Menace" Grey Squirrels
A group of Tory MPs are calling on the government to increase the grants provided to landowners to trap and cull grey squirrels, and further support other methods of squirrel population control to protect the "precious" native red squirrel.
'The facts speak for themselves': Wood must be part of the conversation at COP27 Partner content
Environment
By Confor
"The facts speak for themselves": Wood must be part of the conversation at COP27
COP27 provides an opportunity for global leaders to protect our forests and accelerate tree planting.
Why forestry should be at the top of the next Prime Minister's agenda Partner content
Environment
By Confor
Why forestry should be at the top of the next Prime Minister's agenda
With the sector contributing more than £2 billion to the UK economy, forestry ticks all of the right boxes on the road to Net Zero.
Partner content
Environment
By Wood for Good
Confederation of Forest Industries warns more tree planting is urgently needed to avoid UK facing crisis in wood supply
Timber holds the key to take on embodied carbon in 2022 Partner content
Environment
By Wood for Good
Timber holds the key to take on embodied carbon in 2022
Embodied carbon emissions from the built environment must be tackled now if we are to meet our climate change ambitions says David Warburton, MP for Somerton and Frome, and chair of the APPG for the Timber Industries.
Partner content
Environment
By Wood for Good
How the timber industries can help solve the housing crisis
Recognising that the UK must build more homes, quicker, while reducing carbon emissions, the All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) for the Timber Industries has launched with a new report that aims to provide solutions to the UK’s housing and climate crises.
We must unlock the potential of the timber industry with new APPG Partner content
Environment
By Wood for Good
We must unlock the potential of the timber industry with new APPG
The UK timber industry can help us reach net-zero and meet housing targets – which is why I’m relaunching the APPG for the Timber Industries.
We must tackle both the nature and climate crises together Partner content
Environment
By Woodland Trust
We must tackle both the nature and climate crises together
It is clear that restoring nature and delivering for people go hand in hand, and that requires a stronger emphasis from government on nature in its environment plans.
Partner content
Environment
By Woodland Trust
Wood that inspired Roald Dahl will be destroyed by HS2 this autumn
Nearly half of the wood said to have inspired Roald Dahl to write Fantastic Mr Fox will be destroyed for HS2 this autumn.
Increased tree planting will benefit the environment and the economy Partner content
Environment
By Wood for Good
Increased tree planting will benefit the environment and the economy
Enhanced tree planting and greater wood use can help deliver the UK Government’s short-term imperative (a Green Recovery from Covid-19), medium-term goal (Build Back Better) and long-term aim (Net-Zero by 2050).
Partner content
Environment
By Woodland Trust
Proposed radical reform of the planning system causes deep concern, says Woodland Trust
If the government is really serious about delivering a better informed, more transparent planning system that supports efforts to protect and expand woods for the benefit of people, communities and wildlife, it is not evident in these proposals.
Partner content
Environment
By Woodland Trust
HS2’s catalogue of errors like a runaway train
HS2 Ltd. is continuing to fail the environment with a catalogue of errors growing longer all the time says the Woodland Trust.
The Environment Bill is a unique opportunity to adopt world-leading rules to tackle deforestation
Coronavirus
By Oliver Heald MP
The Environment Bill is a unique opportunity to adopt world-leading rules to tackle deforestation
We must step up our efforts to protect natural habitats around the world.
Oxford to Cambridge Arc: a chance for housebuilding to support a green recovery by protecting and restoring nature Partner content
Coronavirus
By Woodland Trust
Oxford to Cambridge Arc: a chance for housebuilding to support a green recovery by protecting and restoring nature
Some of the UK’s leading nature conservation charities have produced a blueprint for how plans for up to a million new homes can include nature to create happier and healthier communities for people and wildlife.
Coronavirus
By Woodland Trust
The scale of the climate and nature crisis is such that they need to properly command full global attention
It’s a wise decision to postpone COP26, It is clearly a priority right now to focus on the global challenge of safeguarding public health to save lives and fight Covid19.