Forestry and woodlands

Future Woodlands Scotland has been announced as sponsors of a new Urban Forestry Award at the Scotland’s Finest Woods Awards 2025.

Tea and Trees with Crofters

Join Scottish Forestry for an inspiring and interactive online event showcasing how integrating trees on your croft can work for you. 

This event will have two fantastic crofters share their experiences:

Your farm's future: Trees an option and opportunity? Why and how they can benefit your business

Join  for an insightful and interactive evening exploring how integrating trees into your farming practices can deliver significant benefits both now and in the future.

2025 DiversiTree Webinar

This webinar will present the results from the DiversiTree project which aimed to increase resilience of current and future woodlands by working across a range of scales, from microbes to minds, to understand the methods to, and the impacts of, diversifying tree species composition. The project focussed on Sitka spruce and Scots pine forests and assessed:

The Dumfries & Galloway Tree Planting Grant scheme (DGTPG) is still open for applications. 

The DGTPG covers the whole of the Dumfries and Galloway area and seeks to grow the numbers of woodland trees with small areas of planting to benefit the Dumfries and Galloway landscape whilst promoting the guardianship of woodland environments in local communities.

National Rural Mental Health Forum

National Rural Mental Health Forum

Join National Rural Mental Health Forum online for a day filled with insightful discussions, workshops, and networking opportunities focused on mental health in rural communities. This event is designed to bring together experts, practitioners, and community members to address the unique challenges and solutions for mental health in rural areas. Don't miss this chance to learn, connect, and make a difference in rural mental health!

Highlands Rewilding has just published its Fourth Annual Natural Capital Report. 

The report focuses on a year of baseline biodiversity monitoring at the Tayvallich estate on the west coast of Scotland, along with monitoring and restorative updates from its two other Scottish estates, Bunloit, on the banks of Loch Ness, and Beldorney, in Aberdeenshire.

More than 1,200 hectares of degraded rainforest habitat are now on the road to recovery thanks to Scottish Government funding.

Almost £5 million has already been invested in rainforest restoration since 2023 and a further £5 million for ongoing restoration efforts was allocated as part of the draft 2025/26 Budget.

Exchange Visit to Dunnet Community Forest

On the back of recent successful site visits at the Community Woodlands Association October Conference.

CWA are excited to announce our Exchange Visit to Dunnet Community Forest  - our most northerly community woodland group, set on the North Coast 500 route in Caithness.  

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