Our Forests! Full Launch Press Release

16.06.2011

Our Forests! Full Press launch release

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Today sees the launch of a new ‘ginger-group’, Our Forests!

16.06.2011

Our Forests has been formed to make sure that the views of the more than half a million people who signed the 38 Degrees ‘Save Our Forests’ petition against the Government’s plans to sell-off the Public Forest Estate in England are listened to.

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UK Government Opposes EU Sustainable Forestry Mandate

14.06.2011

Will UK government be the source of a rot that will completely destroy hopes for a pan European legal framework for sustainable forest management?

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I thought I’d lost our trees…

30.05.2011

Hen imagines our British Isles without The Oak to make it whole… Phytophthora Ramorum

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A Participative Landscape Contract: lessons for the Forestry Panel from Europe

27.05.2011

Alex Lockwood explores our connection to our landscape as a whole and discusses the values of the European Landscape Convention. Posing important questions to the Forestry Panel.
“The public have a right to be concerned with what happens to their own landscape & be involved in decisions affecting it”

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Forestry Commission 25% Cuts – Details

25.05.2011

*UPDATED 26/05/11* Download the FULL details here: FC-Cuts-Presentation-230511.pdf The Forestry Commission will be cutting 250 jobs and the 12 districts currently covered by the Forestry Commission will merge to form 5 or 6 districts. In simple terms… by 2015 our Public Foresters will be looking after larger areas with 23% less of a workforce.  All […]

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Panel opens its doors for views on forests and woods and announces forest visits

19.05.2011

PRESS RELEASE FROM THE FORESTRY PANEL – The Independent Panel on Forestry is today, Thursday 19th May, inviting everyone interested in forests and woods to come forward, share their views and join in a public conversation. Following its second meeting, the Panel is also pleased to announce its initial visits: to the Forest of Dean, […]

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Is that the Forestry Panel I hear?

17.05.2011

There are quiet murmurings that the Forestry Panel is about to engage! Finally we will see the details of public meetings and forest site visits, as well as a call for us, the public, to share our views and offer up evidence of why we believe it is best that our public forest estate remains in […]

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When will the Independent Panel hear views from residents and local businesses?

16.05.2011

Woodlands and forests are not isolated parcels of land to be covered in cling film in perpetuity: just to satiate the (sometimes over zealous) thirst of conservationists who seem to forget that these areas have living, breathing, working communities who will be in the front line of any changes to the management of their woods […]

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The English landscape has been stolen

04.05.2011

If the public forest estate is taken from us, will the next fight be against the NGOs?

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The Decline of Traditional Skills and Our English Hedgerows

14.04.2011

Both the hedgerow and those that can build, plant and maintain them are in decline. This is in spite of their being quintessential attributes in the English landscape…

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15% Forest sell off – Secretary of State Clarifies

01.04.2011

Secretary of State clarifies the details of the 15% forest sell off.

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Access all areas? by Sarah Walters

31.03.2011

Sarah Walters, Alvecote Wood, shares her thoughts on the effects of public access to her private woodland.

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The Forestry Panels’ first meeting

30.03.2011

This Forestry Panel wouldn’t exist if it wasn’t for the recent, extraordinary, public outcry. We can’t think of one reason their work shouldn’t be transparent…

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Say It With A Tree

27.03.2011
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With spring in the air and a smile in his heart Nick takes to the woods with some green wood carving in mind.

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Why do I love my forest? Well- who doesn’t! By Alex, aged 15

24.03.2011

Alex, aged 15, tells us what forests mean to him.

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Tree Health Threats

23.03.2011

Our trees are not only under threat from, among other things, sale, fragmentation, the high speed rail link, bio-fuel, quarrying, climate change or poor management. They are also under the very real threat of decline from serious pests and diseases.

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Stick Your Neck Out for Your Dreams! A Nextra-terrestrial View of Forests…

23.03.2011

Stick Your Neck Out for Your Dreams! A Nextra-terrestrial View of Forests…Raph shares with us his love of his planet to encourage us in our campaign to protect our woods…

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Secret Circle Woodland – a video by Jason Smalley

22.03.2011
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A short video by Jason Smalley takes us to a very special place in the woods.

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Forest Lovers Celebrate in Friston Forest

21.03.2011
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Hot off the press from Sussex Keep Our Forests Public, the organisers of Sunday’s celebration in Friston Forest in East Sussex. A great day was had by all!

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