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'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.