The NFU’s goal for farming to reach net zero emissions should be welcomed - but their plan to achieve this is worrying and ignores the elephant in the room.
Ash trees are under severe threat. Heather Ackroyd and Dan Harvey's latest artwork aims to celebrate and protect our arboreal heritage. GARY COOK reports
Resilience is something of a buzzword - a necessary one in times of austerity and increased anxiety about work. BRENDAN MONTAGUE had read the literature about how being in nature, telling stories and connecting with people all increase resilience. And then he experienced it first hand when he attended a weekend workshop at Hazel Hill Woods in Salisbury. This is his story.
There are a thousand million voices that will never be heard when we in the UK vote on June 23 - they are all disenfranchised citizens of this land. We should think of them in the coming referendum, urges LESLEY DOCKSEY
Get outside and into the music this summer with performances from Westlife, Keane, Blondie, Simply Red and Doves at one of the Forestry Commission’s Forest Concerts, which are seeking to promote responsible forest enjoyment
What can western countries learn from their less industrialised counterparts about returning woodlands and forests to productive, profitable, local control?
Social entrepreneur Nigel Lowthrop has pioneered a win-win woodland management scheme combining environmental protection with rehabilitating disadvantaged young people
