Overview
Woodland expansion is one of the principal nature-based solutions adopted by the UK and its devolved governments to address the biodiversity and climate crises. Harnessing natural processes can help to expand tree cover, increase connectivity across treescapes, and restore biodiversity.
Over the past three years, a multi-disciplinary team of researchers working across three projects have explored the ecological outcomes of woodland creation using natural processes and land managers’ social perceptions of the approach.
This report presents ten key insights about working with natural processes for woodland creation that have emerged from that research.
Authors: Elisa Fuentes-Montemayor, Bianca Ambrose-Oji, Laura Braunholtz, Vanessa Burton, Susannah Fleiss, Heather Gilbert, Matt Guy, Sam Hughes, Julia Koricheva, Rachel Orchard, Kirsty Park, Maddy Pearson, Thiago Silva, Kevin Watts, and Marc Metzger.