Forest Research
Research agency for the Forestry Commission.
Scientific services to support sustainable forestry.
- ❗ Survey reminder 👉 Forestry and timber businesses across the UK are being asked to take part in an annual survey programme. 📧 To take part, contact statistics@forestresearch.gov.uk Deadline 27 Feb. 🔗 More information: www.forestresearch.gov.uk/news/call-fo...
- A new suite of practical resources is available to help planners, practitioners & regulators create woodland & grassland on previously used land. 🔎 Find out more: www.forestresearch.gov.uk/news/new-lan... Funded by #Defra Nature for Climate Fund. Developed through @forestrycommission.bsky.social
- New case studies show how agroforestry can be practical, adaptable and profitable, helping farms remain productive while supporting nature and climate adaptation. Find out more: storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/de25... Funded by the UK Government through Defra’s Nature for Climate Fund programme.
- We’re looking ahead to the Trees, People and the Built Environment 6 (TPBE6) and we’d love your input. -Share your appetite for the conference -Highlight the topics that matter most -Tell us which real-world scenarios you’d like to see explored 👉 www.surveymonkey.com/r/CX5JHJC
- 🌺Take part in an anonymous short survey to strengthen plant pest and disease detection across UK horticulture. We’re keen to hear from any business involved in buying or selling ornamental plants. Take part by 16 Feb: www.forestresearch.gov.uk/news/new-nat...
- Great to see the positive response to the 'Wind within the Trees' event. 🌳 @drtomlocatelli.bsky.social and the team hosted forestry advisors and land managers at Queen Elizabeth Forest Park to discuss Continuous Cover Forestry, wind risk & forest resilience. More to come from this project soon. ⬇️
- 🔎✨We are looking for two new Committee members to join the Forestry Commission Expert Committee on Forest Science. 📢 Closing Date: 30th January 2026 🔗 Apply online: ow.ly/6qEG50XTng0 #ForestryCommission #ForestResearch #ECFS
- This week (15–18 December), Forest Research staff are attending the @britishecologicalsociety.org Annual Meeting in Edinburgh, taking part in a wide range of presentations, workshops and discussions.💚 Find out more: www.britishecologicalsociety.org/content/bes-... #BES #ForestResearch #Ecology
- Only nine conifer species make up almost all UK commercial forests. Sitka spruce accounts for over half of all timber harvested. To boost resilience to climate change, Forest Research and partners (Forestry and Land Scotland & Forestry England) planted 17 emerging species over 9 large trial sites.
- 🌳Ammonia absorbing tree-belts lead to ecosystem trade-offs – increased nitrogen and carbon capture but reduced microbe diversity in soil – suggests new research. 👇 www.forestresearch.gov.uk/news/what-ef... The research was funded by #DefraGovUK Nature for Climate Fund.
- 🪵🔥If you're involved in the harvesting, processing, transport, import or trade of firewood in Scotland, please complete our firewood industry survey to help protect Scotland’s trees. 👇 www.forestresearch.gov.uk/news/take-pa...
- New guidance is available to help local authorities understand the social & cultural values people hold for trees. Partnership with @thetreecouncil.bsky.social @yorkuniversity.bsky.social #FeraScience Funded by #DefraGovUK Future Proofing Plant Health Programme. More info: ow.ly/tMJi50XBIMA
- Join our national monitoring project and help expand a network of pheromone traps to improve understanding of the eight-toothed spruce bark beetle, Ips typographus. 👉 Sign up: ow.ly/4uIC50XtyqM @forestrycommission.bsky.social @sylva.org.uk #DefraGovUK #WoodlandManagement #TreeHealth
- A major new research project is underway to identify a shortlist of productive tree species suited to Wales’ current & future climate. Commissioned by Welsh Gov, partnership with @woodknowledgewales.bsky.social @bangoruniversity.bsky.social & @edinburghnapier.bsky.social Details: ow.ly/twfa50XyxBK
- Forest Research, led by social scientist, Dr Stephen McConnachie, interviewed 49 farmers and held two focus groups to understand how their values shape decisions about growing trees on farms. Funded by Defra's Nature for Climate Fund 🌱 Full detail: www.forestresearch.gov.uk/news/how-do-...
- It’s National Tree Week and to mark the occasion, Forest Research staff are sharing the tree species they love most. 💚 🔎🌳 We’ve also updated our 'Easy Guide to Forest Trees and Their Uses' publication: www.forestresearch.gov.uk/publications... #NationalTreeWeek @thetreecouncil.bsky.social
- The latest Timber Price Indices for Great Britain has now been published, covering sales up to 30 September 2025. View the full Timber Price Indices here: ow.ly/i5SC50XtYEp #ForestResearch #TimberPriceIndices #UKForestry
- Join our national monitoring project and help expand a GB-wide network of pheromone traps to improve understanding of the eight toothed spruce bark beetle, Ips typographus. 👉 Sign up: ow.ly/TICy50XtxN9 @forestrycommission.bsky.social @sylva.org.uk #DefraGovUK
- Chief Scientist, Prof. Bianca Ambrose-Oji, and many FR researchers presented at the Britain’s Forest Future conference running in Durham yesterday and today 🌳📊. Organised by Defra @uktreescapes.bsky.social and the Centre for Forest Protection #ForestResearch #UKTreescapes #ForestsFuture
- 👏 Dr Nadeem W. Shah, Senior Hydrologist at Forest Research, presented at the 6th @iufro.bsky.social International Conference on Forests and Water in a Changing Environment. Delegates visited the Miyun Reservoir Forest Experiment Station, which was damaged in this summer’s floods.
- 🌿 We’re hiring a Scientist in Molecular Biology to be involved in routine testing of samples for pests and pathogens. 👉 Find out more and apply: ow.ly/NGqQ50XkRNX 📍 Location: Alice Holt Research Station, Hampshire 📅 Apply by: 25 November 2025 #ScienceCareers
- 📣Calling all researchers & practitioners – join us for a practical webinar to introduce an interactive tool that maps the social science evidence of land managers & woodland creation. 📅 Thursday 4 December, 15:00 - 15:30 💻 Free online session 👉 Register: www.forestresearch.gov.uk/news/land-ma...
- Liz O’Brien, Forest Research’s Principal Social Scientist, gave a keynote on Green Social Prescribing at the World Forum on Forest Therapy 🇰🇷. With 300 delegates from 35 countries, the event showed how forest therapy is shaping global health policy. 🌲 #ForestTherapy #NatureForHealth
- 🌍 @drtomlocatelli.bsky.social explores the complex impacts of #windstorms as well as forest management strategies to help reduce wind-related damage, incl the #ForestGALES decision support tool, widely used across Europe to inform sustainable forest management. #ForestResearch #ClimateScience
- 𝐅𝐨𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡 𝐡𝐚𝐝 𝐚 𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐠 𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐚𝐭 t𝐡𝐞 𝟗𝐭𝐡 #𝐅𝐥𝐨𝐰𝐂𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐲 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞: 𝐅𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐂𝐚𝐩𝐢𝐭𝐮𝐥𝐮𝐦 𝐭𝐨 𝐂𝐚𝐭𝐜𝐡𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭. The focus on understanding how #peatlands respond to restoration at different scales from the microscopic to the catchment level. @rspbscience.bsky.social @thinkuhi.bsky.social
- 📢🤝Forest Research and the Sylva Foundation are inviting woodland owners and agents in England to take part in an exciting new project investigating how woodland structure influences biodiversity. 🔗 Find out more: www.forestresearch.gov.uk/news/owners-...
- 🌿 We’re hiring a Field Research Officer to play a key role in collecting and managing data that underpins our research on forest health, resilience and sustainable management. Apply: ow.ly/3nZb50XkRNV 📍 Location: Santon Downham, Brandon, Suffolk #ForestryJobs #ForestResearch #EnvironmentalScience
- We’ve been working with Scottish Forestry to develop a shortlist of 28 productive tree species that will help diversify woodland, strengthen resilience to pests, diseases, and climate change, and guide future investment and management decisions. 💪🌳 🔗 Learn more: ow.ly/jkvB50XjCLs #ForestResearch
- 🏴Byddwn yng nghynhadledd rithiol #WythnosHinsawddCymru yr wythnos nesaf. 👋Dewch i ddweud helo wrth ein stondin arddangos rithiol. ⏰Byddwn yma o 8:30am - 3:30pm 📅3 tan 5 Tachwedd 🔗Ymunwch â ni trwy ymrestru i’r digwyddiad ow.ly/FxBy50XiXxj
- Site managers are often unsure how visitors perceive dead & decaying trees in the landscape. 📘 Full report: forestresearch.gov.uk/news/public-... @nationaltrust.org.uk @kneppwilding.bsky.social Funded by Defra's #NatureforClimate
- 🤩 Earlier this month, 15 delegates attended our training school to learn about applying social science to urban tree health as part of the COST Association - European Cooperation in Science and Technology & COST Action CA 20132 – UrbanTreeGuard. #UrbanTreeHealth #Biosecurity #ForestResearch
- Have you ever used our Forest Research Statistics Publications? We want to hear from you. Take part in the survey here ➡️ ow.ly/r6TT50XcfvO 💫 Help us make our publications even better. 🗓️ Closes 31 October 2025 💬 Takes just a few minutes #ForestryStatistics #ForestResearch
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- 🌳 How do new woodlands shape wellbeing and sense of place? Research led by Dr Beth Brockett at Forest Research found communities see local tree planting as good for both nature and people. 🔍 Learn more: ow.ly/kLaK50XaSGB #WoodlandCreation | #SocialScience
- 🆕The latest price-size curves report for UK-grown hardwood species has been published. Inside you'll find updated curves for various species, combining survey data with insight to estimate standing sale prices (£/m³) across different tree sizes. 🔗 ow.ly/LkuO50WYJHb 🤝Grown in Britain #GiBWeek2025
- 🌳 Scientists from our Tree Health team recently attended The Sunken Garden Ecofair in Margate, Kent where they spoke to people about #Pests and #Diseases of trees and how to report to #ForestResearch. Report ill health in trees via TreeAlert ↙ 🔗 ow.ly/6b8v50X3y7q
- 💦 Through piloting the Woodland Water Code, we worked with Blenheim Palace and AtkinsRéalis to quantify reductions in agricultural pollution and flood waters on the estate as a result of woodland creation. 🔗 Read more: www.forestresearch.gov.uk/news/blenhei... #GreenFinance #NaturalCapital
- 🌳 Trees help fight #ClimateChange by capturing #Carbon from the air and storing it. Explore our new carbon content in the Climate Change Hub to see how you can help enhance carbon stocks and contribute to #ClimateAction. 🔗 www.forestresearch.gov.uk/climate-chan...
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- Earlier this month, #ForestResearch biogeochemist, Dr Elena Vanguelova, took part in the Westminster Climate and Nature (Soils) Roundtable at the @houseofcommons.parliament.uk, as part of wider discussion of the proposed Climate and Nature Bill, hosted by Dr Roz Savage MP.
