LEARNING AND NETWORKING WITH PARTNERS AT FOREST RESEARCH

4 December 2024: the Woodland Savers team along with colleagues from Lawyers for Nature, Woodknowledge Wales and Pryor & Rickett Silviculture made the trip to Alice Holt Lodge in Surrey for a day of discussions focused on Forest Research’s programmes, and alignments with the work of Woodland Savers and our partner organisations also gathered.

 

Forest Research is Great Britain’s principal organisation for forestry and tree-related research and is internationally renowned for the provision of evidence and scientific services in support of sustainable forestry.

 

Part of the value Woodland Savers creates as an organisation is as a convenor. Events like this are important in helping organisations establish and explore common ground and complementary capabilities, and collaboratively addressing challenges within the land-use sector. 

 

Peter Crow provided a fantastic overview of the Observatree project highlighting the development and benefits of high quality citizen science to the wider environment. Dr Madalena Vaz Monteiro and  James Winstanley, representing the Urban Forest Research Group, shared from their ongoing work quantifying the benefits of urban trees and the potential of habitat creation on vacant and derelict land.

 

Finally Dr Bianca Ambrose-Oji and Beth Brockett joined online, along with our new sattelite biodiversity mapping partner Map Impact, to discuss the remarkable, multi-year research initiatives of the Society and Environment Research Group. In a single hour we had the chance to tour years of research across a multitude of case studies at the intersection of society and environment – all of direct import for our community nature recovery projects.

 

A hearty thanks to Emily Williams at Forest Research for making all this happen. We all left sure that if we are to make effective, long-term decisions at landscape scale, all those involved in land management need the best possible evidence at their fingertips! We would therefore support much longer-term financial support for Forest Research, commensurate with the long-term cycles of nature and processes of nature restoration. 



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