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Ancient Tree Hunt
Ancient trees are a wonderful part of our natural world and heritage. We need your help to find all the ancient trees across the UK. A comprehensive map of all the UK's ancient trees would help us to conserve them.

Back on the Map
The Woodland Trust's search for Northern Ireland's oldest woods.

Conservation Land Trust

• Do you own UK woodland (or related habitat) that you care deeply about?
• Do you wish to safeguard this land for nature conservation for the future?
• Are you unsure about how best this can be achieved?
• Would you like to acquire woodland to look after for the benefit of nature conservation?

If the answer to any of these questions is yes, then this site is the site to visit for information and how to do this.

ePolitix
This is a microsite on the ePolitix political portal.

Discovery
Welcome to the Woodland Trust's pages of discovery. We would love you to be as inspired as we are about trees and woodland. To help you to find the resources, activities and projects that interest you most.

Legacies
Find out how leaving a gift in your will (a legacy or bequest) will make a real difference to the future of our priceless woodland heritage and the wildlife that relies upon it. This site is also an important information resource, showing why making a will is important to you, simply explaining the will making process and translating legal language into plain English.

Native tree shop
The Woodland Trust's native tree shop supplies a range of native trees and shrubs. All Woodland Trust proceeds from the native tree shop go towards our work caring for trees and woods across the UK.

Nature Detectives
Discover the natural world and explore the changing timing of the seasons across the UK. Nature Detectives is an online phenology education project for children, parents, schools and youth groups to record nature's seasonal events and contribute to real scientific research about the impact of climate change.

Phenology
The Woodland Trust joined forces with the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, a leading scientific organisation, to assist their work in monitoring and evaluating changes to nature's events. You can submit your observations online and view historical records.

Tree For All
This is the largest children's tree planting initiative the UK has ever seen. The Woodland Trust's vision is that every child should have the chance to plant trees. Over the next five years one million children will be involved in planting twelve million trees - that's one tree planted for every child under 16 in the UK.

Wild about woods
Wild about Woods is the Woodland Trust's education portal, launched in Spring 2004. It offers a variety of resources to help teachers enthuse and inspire their pupils about the natural environment.

Woodland Trust Store
Our online shop - find books, stationery, gifts and a way to a greener lifestyle.

Woods for People
This website gives information about a partnership between the Woodland Trust and the Forestry Commission (England & Wales) and the Environment & Heritage Service (Northern Ireland) to create a UK wide provisional inventory of accessible woodland. 

Woods on your Doorstep
It's something we did together...

At the beginning of the new Millennium, England, Wales and Northern Ireland are now greener places thanks to the Woodland Trust and Millennium Commission's Project, Woods on your Doorstep.

Woods under threat
Woods and trees under threat - provides information on the location of ancient woods and ancient trees that are under threat. It also displays the ancient woodland inventories online and provides advice in a campaigner's guide on fighting your own cases of woods and trees under threat.

Other links

Contak
Web-based machinery ring service which puts machine owners, land managers and operators in touch with each other for the purpose of facilitating the hire of machines, equipment and labour relevant to nature conservation works.

Ecolots
Eco-Lots is a free service designed to help the rural economy by assisting with the environmentally sensitive and sustainable management of land, trees and wildlife in the UK.

FACT
Forum for the Application of Conservation Techniques.

Forestry Commission
The Forestry Commission of Great Britain is the government department responsible for the protection and expansion of Britain's forests and woodland.

FWAG
The Farming and Wildlife Advisory Group can offer practical advice to farmers on woodland creation it also has a wide range of relevant publications available.

Grazing animals project
GAP exists to help land managers get the desired level of grazing on wildlife sites. They provide practical support to graziers, wildlife site managers and conservation advisors across the UK.

Greenlight Trust
Our mission is to bring communities and landscapes to life through ‘hands on’ learning and the growing of woodlands. Our goal is to build a unique patchwork of rejuvenated landscapes and communities, to initiate 200 projects and impact on 100,000 children. Green Light Trust works with both urban and rural communities to find land, design, plant, manage and own their woodland projects.

The Natural History Museum
If you want to know which trees and shrubs are of local provenance to where you are planning to plant, the Natural History Museum holds an extensive postcode database. Just type in your postcode and you will be provided with a list of native trees and shrubs for your area.

Tree Trader
The UK's most comprehensive website for those working in native woodland and forestry - provides general information on woodland, trees and local suppliers.

BTCV
BTCV is the UK's leading charity working with people to bring about positive environmental change.

The Tree Council
Promotes the improvement of the environment through the planting and conservation of trees and woods in towns and the rural areas throughout the UK. It organises the annual National Tree Week and co-ordinates the national Tree Warden Scheme.

Small Woods Association
Britain’s leading organisation for all those with the well-being of our small woods at heart. Here you can find out what makes our small woods precious and special, what is being done to encourage their appreciation and sustainable management and how you can join.

The Countryside Agency
The Countryside Agency is the statutory body working to make life better for people in the countryside and improve the quality of the countryside for everyone.

Community Forests
England's Community Forest programme.

English Nature
English Nature champions the conservation of wildlife, geology and wild places in England. It is a government agency set up by the Environment Protection Act 1990 and funded by the Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.

The Wildlife Trusts
The Wildlife Trusts partnership is the UK's leading conservation charity exclusively dedicated to wildlife.

The Woodland Trust
The Woodland Trust is the UK's leading conservation charity dedicated to the protection of our native woodland heritage.

National Urban Forestry Unit
The UK's National Urban Forestry Unit is a charitable organisation that works to raise awareness of the positive contribution that trees make to the quality of life in towns.

Practical Solutions
This website updates and extends information provided in the original handbook and, with other parts of the FACT website, provides a forum where land managers can exchange information.

The National Trust
The National Trust was the first organisation in Britain with a statutory duty to conserve wildlife. With more than 100 years' experience of managing land for habitats and species, it is now one of Europe's leading nature conservation organisations.

RSPB
The RSPB is Europe’s largest wildlife conservation charity with more than a million members.

Royal Forestry Society
Based in the UK the Royal Forestry Society caters for all who care about forestry, forests, woods and trees, their husbandry and their future.

Community Champions
The Community Champions Fund website has been set up to help you become active in your community or help others to do so.

B&Q Better Neighbourhood
Offer small-scale grants for practical equipment for your community project.

Enablers Scheme
Provides support to people and community groups to improve their local parks and green spaces.

The Mersey Forest
The Mersey Forest Project is a partnership that is creating the largest of England's 12 'Community Forests' - forests created within, around, for and by local communities.

The Groundwork Trust
Groundwork is a leading environmental regeneration charity making sustainable development a reality in many of the UK’s poorest communities.

Learning Through Landscapes
Since 1990, Learning through Landscapes (ltl) alongside its sister charity Grounds for Learning (GfL) in Scotland, has helped schools across the UK to bring lasting improvements to the environmental quality and educational use of their grounds.

Arboricultural Association
If you are a tree enthusiast or are involved in the care of trees either personally or professionally, you will find that membership of this association will provide many benefits. 

Arboricultural Information Exchange
The AIE is dedicated to sharing information and news relating to arboricultural issues. It is primarily intended for use by arboriculturists who may need to source information quickly on a given subject. Much of the information, such as legislation, is currently UK-based only.

British Trees
British Trees provides an extensive collection of reference material relating to trees.

The Institute of Chartered Foresters
The Institute is the professional body for foresters and arborists throughout the UK.

Certified Arborists
A list of certified arborists

Association of Pole-Lathe Turners and Greenwood Workers
A list of woodturners and demonstrators

Living Spaces
Living Spaces want to support projects of all shapes and sizes, from small to large scale improvements to the landscapes people live in. You can apply for any amount between £1,000 and £100,000.

Penditty Community Woodland Group
A community woodland project on the edge of Bodmin Moor in south-east Cornwall

HDRA
Dedicated to researching and promoting organic gardening, farming and food.

The Civic Trust Green Pennant Award
The Green Pennant Award is a national award that recognises high quality green spaces in England and Wales that are managed by voluntary and community groups.

Forest Education Initiative
Forest Education Initiative (FEI) aims to increase the understanding and appreciation, particularly among young people, of the environmental, social, and economic potential of trees, woodlands and forests and of the link between the tree and everyday wood products.

High Weald Furniture
At High Weald Furniture we specialise in the design and manufacture of quality furniture made using only home-grown hardwoods

Green Wood Workers
This site is dedicated to coordinating the efforts of volunteers interested in demonstrating pole lathe and other greenwood working skills at, primarily, The Amberley Working Museum, in West Sussex, England.

Coppice-Products.co.uk
Coppice is a form of woodland management that provides both fuel and a host of raw materials.

Naturenet
Naturenet is a voluntary enterprise to provide a good online resource for practical nature conservation and countryside management. We are based in the UK, and most of the information available on Naturenet relates to the UK, particularly England. 

Tree Aid
TREE AID has a vision to see thriving, self-reliant communities in Africa's drylands. It is working towards this by reversing poverty and environmental degradation for some of the most threatened people on earth, through skills transfer and community forest and income generation projects.

Rural Energy Trust
Is a leading supplier of wood fuel and other biomass heating equipment in the UK. 

Resurgence
Resurgence is the leading international forum for ecological and spiritual thinking. It is a life-line to the heart of the environmental movement, connecting readers to a world of ideas, tools and resources that are needed to create positive change.

Lightwood
Lightwoods.co.uk is a website about a small woodland 6.5 acres in size somewhere in deepest darkest Surrey.

Forest Schools
The philosophy of Forest Schools is to encourage and inspire individuals of any age through positive experiences and participation in engaging and motivating achievable tasks and activities in a woodland environment, helping to develop personal, social and emotional skills: 

CampaignON.com
Allows campaigners to set up their own fully-fledged web site. It offers a powerful tool for lobbying decision makers locally, nationally or internationally. You can use CampaignON.com to campaign on any issue. The system is quick and simple to use - and it's free!

The Rainforest-Portal
Is an Internet search tool that provides access to reviewed rainforest conservation news, information retrieval tools, and original analysis and action opportunities; including an annual assessment of the State of the Rainforests. The Rainforest Portal is a project of Ecological Internet. This site is dedicated to the complete protection of all remaining large rainforest in the world, an end to industrial rainforest development, and ecologically sustainable development for their inhabitants.

The Green Directory
Welcome to the Green Directory, the UK's premier green resource. Published annually as a book version and also online, the Green Directory offers a unique blend of people, organisations, and businesses involved in the green sectors.

EcoEarth.info
EcoEarth.Info is an Internet search tool that provides access to reviewed environmental sustainability news, information retrieval tools, and original analysis and action opportunities. It's one of a kind environment portal - with genuine Internet search, cutting biocentric commentary & constant news and link tracking - and dedicated to achieving global environmental sustainability. EcoEarth.Info is for noncommercial, educational purposes only.

Naturally Active
An interactive web based resource to inspire recreational opportunities, some are quite sensitive for a community woodland setting but will be of interest and debate!

Vine
Vine was created as a way of opening up discussion about the natural environment and reminding ourselves why we cared enough to become involved in the first place.