Tell your story in nature competition!
The Tree Council along with The Week Junior Science+Nature have launched an exciting new writing competition, open to all children in the UK aged between 8 and 15. Your story can be a poem or a piece of prose and can be fiction or non-fiction. Closing date 25th November.
Free trees
The I Dig Trees campaign from TCV and OVO Energy is providing 600,000 free trees to community groups and organisations across England, Wales and Scotland. Packs are available of 50 trees, including oak, birch and rowan. Maximum 19 packs per application. Trees can be ordered for delivery up to the end of March, but are going fast!
Force for nature – one tree
The Tree Council share this inspiring video as part of their message to COP26. In another video, discover how to grow your own tree from seed.
Supporting the curriculum and nature through planting trees
East Ayrshire Learning Outdoors Support Team (LOST) share a lesson grid on Tree Planting and Tree Care. This supports Curricular Area: Sciences, Biodiversity and Interdependence. Find this and other resources in Issue 41 of the LOST newsletter.
Creating the Glasgow Children’s Woodland – a short film
Watch this short documentary film by The Lost Woods, telling the story of the creation of the Glasgow Children’s Woodland. This is a legacy project to the COP26 Climate Conference. It’s a heart-warming story about hope and how a local Glasgow group took on an ambitious idea of reaching out [...]
Living Ash Project – report a tree
Have you seen a healthy ash tree surrounded by dying ash trees? The Living Ash Project aims to identify a large and diverse number of ash trees with good tolerance to ash dieback. This is to help breed future stocks of health and resistant trees. This might be worth exploring [...]
Personifying trees through Twitter – the Witness Trees
Read this article in The Conversation (11 October 2021) To save forests, researchers are hooking trees up to Twitter’. It describes the Witness Tree project. This research helps us understand how trees are affected by environmental change, through individual tree stories.
Climate crisis: what can trees really do for us?
This article in the Conversation (12 October 2021) describes research which exposed trees to enriched CO2 air to replicate possible future conditions under climate change. It discusses the findings, the role of forests in carbon accounting, and the pros and cons of reforestation campaigns.
