Tag Archives: Woodwatch
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
Woodland Trust Campaigners Silenced!!
Its a rare day in the Woodland Trust campaigning office when silence falls across our small, but perfectly formed team. Whilst trailing through page upon page of the High Speed 2 consultation document, we stumbled across this ‘mitigation’ proposal for the destruction of … Continue reading
Long and winding road: the final episode
This is it, the moment has finally arrived. The Weymouth Relief Road has at long last opened, the campaign fought to protect our precious ancient woodland from being lost to a new road now a distant, but bitter, memory. The desperate desire … Continue reading
WoodWatch + 12
Well what a busy year! WoodWatch is gathering speed, it now has 35 skilled volunteers that are detecting threats and kicking-ass with local councils and developers. Now the volunteers are in place we will continue to grow their numbers to … Continue reading
Help us say no!
The new South Downs National Park is in its infancy, in comparison to its fellow parks, with its designation only taking effect from 31st March 2010. Startlingly there is already a challenge to one of its main aims to conserve and … Continue reading
BBC’s Marty Jopson supports our manifesto
The Woodland Trust has dedicated the last 10 years to fighting against the loss of Ancient Woodland. There is no exaggeration in the statement that it is the UK’s equivalent of the rainforest and yet our planning systems have allowed … Continue reading
Against the law?
Tree Preservation Orders (TPO) are generally put in place by Local Authorities as a way to protect trees from unauthorised felling or maintenance works. However it seems that in some situations this is not actually true – or there seems to … Continue reading
Safe and sound or just green-wash?
As far as I was aware designating locally important habitats (by important I mean to both people and wildlife) was a method of giving some protection to vulnerable habitats that might otherwise be drowned by concrete in the relentless development of … Continue reading
Fields with trees – what’s that then?
Things have been pretty quiet in Wales for us recently – well on the roads front at least. That is until we ‘accidentally’ found out about some improvements to the A470 between Cwm-Bach and Newbridge that are being planned by … Continue reading
Pulling the wool over our eyes – Not this time!
At times it can feel a bit like we are not getting the full story when campaigning to protect ancient woodland. This might be from the Local Planning Authority, the developer or the relevant Government Agency – each have been … Continue reading
