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Optimal soil conditions or ‘soil health’ is the foundation of forest health, including providing resilience in the face of environmental change. This research aims to improve interest in and uptake of science-based guidance and advice to maintain or improve forest soil health for forest resilience.

This research, commissioned by Forestry England (FE) investigated the opinions, perceptions, attitudes, and knowledge of key stakeholders with interest in the reintroduction of European wildcat into Kielder Forest, as well as the residents within 20 miles of Kielder village.

Agroforestry, the integration of managed trees and agriculture, will help meet national tree planting commitments and provide social, environmental and economic benefits. This project will develop and test a monitoring and evaluation framework for agroforestry agri-environment schemes to measure scheme outcomes and improve future offers.

Branching Out is a project led by Loughborough University that aims to meaningfully account for the social and cultural values of treescapes.

The National Conversation project aims to lay the foundations for a national conversation on plant and tree health and biosecurity, by developing our understanding of the public’s awareness, attitudes, motivations and actions around the topic and exploring opportunities to encourage action for plant health and biosecurity through targeted interventions.

Nick Porter

Trees, woods, and forests provide multiple benefits to society, including those of social and cultural value. This research outlines a scoping study which sought to identify and test methods for spatially mapping and surveying the recreation attitudes and behaviours of people living in an area around Cannock Chase National Landscape.

This research project aimed to improve the representation and understanding of the social and cultural values of treescapes in plant health policy. Existing evidence on the social and cultural values of treescapes by publics tends to be limited in scope, for example to recreation, aesthetics, or health values.