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18.01.2023
The uptake of any new grant scheme can be slow in its first year as people get used to how it works – and so it seems with the England Woodland Creation Offer (EWCO). Launched in 2021, the Forestry Commission’s most recent grant designed to increase woodland plantings offers fixed rate capital payments and, significantly, […]
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10.01.2023
The pre-Christmas gathering at the Confor (Confederation of Forest Industries) conference proved to be a revelation to many in the audience. The new Defra minister with responsibility for forestry and tree planting, Trudy Harrison MP, was dynamic and clear. Statements such as ‘we are serious about trees and forests, we are serious about our ambitions […]
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07.12.2022
Strutt and Parker’s Forestry Team in Lewes have been instrumental in supporting a client in Sussex fell vulnerable Spruce trees within their estate at risk of Ips Typographus (Eight Toothed Spruce Bark Beetle). The block of woodland of some 3.43 hectares has been suffering from windblow over the last few years which has become a […]
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02.12.2022
The Scottish Government recently announced it will be undertaking a review of the Forestry Grant Scheme (FGS) that has been running since 2015. With the current pressure on public finances, this might give rise to suspicions that the golden time in forestry could be coming to an end. However, Scotland’s Environment Minister Mairi McAllan took […]
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21.10.2022
There has been a lot said in recent years about the importance of trees for our future. Forestry can deliver wide-ranging benefits – from helping to address the threat of climate change through to improving health and wellbeing. Over recent months the UK’s economic outlook has started to look less positive, we have seen rises […]
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14.10.2022
New woodlands (afforestation) sequester carbon from the atmosphere and there is potential to trade this carbon. However, in order to be eligible for carbon funding, applicants have to prove they would not have gone ahead with the project without the carbon funding ie, the carbon produced must be in addition to business as usual. The […]
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09.08.2022
Woodland owners, particularly those in the southeast of England, are being asked to be on the watch for a new threat – the evocatively named ‘larger eight-toothed European spruce beetle’. Commonly referred to as Ips, on the basis of its Latin name Ips typographus, it is a pest that all woodland owners – especially those in […]
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04.07.2022
Strutt & Parker was delighted to sponsor the Future of the Elm Tree conference on restoring elm to the landscape, held at Kew Gardens on 28 June 2022. The best conferences inspire you – they make you want to learn more and do more – and this was one of those. Opening the conference, organised by the Institute of […]
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24.03.2022
Much has been said about the importance of trees for locking up carbon, but trees also have a crucial role to play as we try to transition away from carbon intensive building materials such as concrete and steel. The farming sector has done a lot of work to get the public to connect with where […]
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10.12.2021
Forest plantations across the UK have experienced significant damage due to Storm Arwen, which struck overnight on 26 November. Early indications are that in Scotland it is forests on the eastern side of the country which have been most impacted. While there have been reports of damage in Dumfries and Galloway and Perth and Argyll, […]
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29.11.2021
Unless you’ve been hiding under a stump you’ll know there’s been a lot of talk about planting trees in recent months, even Boris Johnson has been getting in on the act. This has been driven mainly by the recognition, that globally, society has a huge mountain to climb to get our greenhouse gas emissions, and […]
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