Tag Archives: Woods Under Threat
Thunk! on the glass ceiling
Oh dear. Once again, it’s ancient woodland protection that has a twinge of disappointment where other woodland and tree issues have won their part in the government’s response to the Independent Panel for Forests. There are indeed some great things … Continue reading
Decisions, decisions…..
Finally, we reach the end of a long and winding process. It has taken 13 witnesses, two barristers, 11 third party interest groups and individuals, and more boxes of paper than any one cares to imagine to debate the need for ragstone … Continue reading
Is High Speed 2 a fait accompli?
High Speed 2 may appear a fait accompli for our ancient woodland along the route, but there is tantalising gossip indicating that all is not well in the HS2 camp. Despite confirmation that HS2 will go forward there is too … Continue reading
High Speed 2 – We need answers!
I wonder if the irony is lost on ‘the greenest Government ever’ when an environmental NGO is forced to dispute a ‘green transport’ concept – a position it was put in because of that government’s poor decision-making. We would have loved to have been able to … Continue reading
WuT you like to identify unmapped ancient woodland?
A common question that we get in the Woods under Threat Team is “how can you identify if a wood is ancient?” The Ancient Woodland Inventory was created in the 1980′s and it shows most ancient woodland that is over two … Continue reading
WuT you like an update?
I have just completed a bi-monthly update of our Woods under Threat cases, and with all my recent posts I thought you all might like to see a brief overview of the threats that vulnerable ancient woods are currently facing, or have fought off (sometimes … Continue reading
‘Trees are the filter – we are the fish’
Sometimes you hear someone speak and wish you could share it with the world. They just sum it up so perfectly that it seems a crying shame not to share their brilliance with someone else. That’s why when this TEDx … Continue reading
NPPF – the threat to ancient woodland remains!
Our initial reaction to the National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF). The Government have ignored the threat to ancient woodland and retained the loop hole in the NPPF. The NPPF states: 118. planning permission should be refused for development resulting in the … Continue reading
WuT you like to help
We know we are not being told about all of the planning applications that are destroying and damaging ancient woodland in the UK. As you will have seen from my previous two posts, WuT you like to know and WuT … Continue reading
WuT you like to see?
With the creation of the new Woods under Threat (WuT) database that has been mentioned in my previous post it has meant that we are now able to analyse the data that we have collected over the last 10 years across the … Continue reading
