Timber

Visiting a 3,000-year-old neighbour.

'Forests are resilient, adaptive, multifaceted, and have offered us real hope that we could find a way through the crisis.'

🌳 Timber Festival is taking over The Ecologist today - celebrating the existence, rather than the passing, of a festival affected by the Covid-19 lockdown.

🌳 An extract from Hendrikus van Hensbergen's forthcoming book for young people: How You Can Save the Planet.

🌳 Natural capital and the transition to different economies and values.

🌳 The heady, carefree days of Timber 2019 seem a world away now. But has the lockdown thrown into relief many things some of us have been feeling for a long time?

🌳 Being able to identify biodiversity is essential for the appreciation and conservation of wildlife both on a local and global scale.

🌳 Forest Schools can go some way to replacing what has been lost to our children during the coronavirus crisis, including schooling.

🌳 Professor Deirdre Heddon and Dr Misha Myers explain how their Walking Library functions as a public artwork connecting people with places and writing.

🌳 We can use digital technologies to educate, stimulate and highlight the crucial issues of wildlife, species loss, and nature connectedness.

🌳 Exploring the connections between zoonotic diseases, human health and well-being, ecosystem degradation and biodiversity loss.

🌳 Reflections on poetry among the trees in 2019 and the power of art to nurture visions for the future.

🌳 Gathering in nature for collective experiences is a catalyst for change, and a summer apart is teaching us why.

Timber Festival panellists discuss the key practices, problems and possibilities associated with 'rewilding'.

What is progress and how do we measure it? Timber Festival will explore this question in relation to nature, the green economy and community wellbeing.

The National School of Forestry is participating in Timber Festival to foster greater public awareness of how sustainable forest management defends our living planet.

How to the festival producers Wild Rumpus keep sustainability at the heart of what they do?