The statistics team, now part of Forest Research, produces statistics on a wide range of topics related to forestry.
All releases are published at 9.30am on the release date. Release date Publication title Document type 25 September 2025 Forestry Statistics 2025 Accredited Official Statistic Forestry Facts and Figures 2025 Accredited Official Statistic 16 October 2025 Joint Forest Sector Questionnaire: Final 2024 data This will be the last release of Joint...
Statistics produced by Forest Research - data downloads
This release contains provisional statistics on: UK woodland area; certified woodland area; areas of new planting and publicly funded restocking; and projects registered under the Woodland Carbon Code. The final results are published every September in Forestry Statistics, and summarised in Forestry Facts and Figures. Details Coverage: United Kingdom Geographical breakdown:...
UK forestry statistics provided to international organisations - Joint Forest Sector Questionnaire (JFSQ)
How will the changing environment impact bark-boring insects? Climate change projections indicate more frequent extreme weather events, such as storms, heatwaves, droughts, and floods. One of the likely consequences of this will be an abundance of stressed trees with weakened defences against pests, creating favourable conditions for some species of...
This report describes the outcomes of a recent Forest Research project which aimed to improve understanding of land managers decision-making concerning the uptake of natural colonisation as an approach to woodland creation.
This report presents ten key insights about working with natural processes for woodland creation that have emerged from our research.
Overview Resilience to climate change, the threat of pests and diseases, tackling the biodiversity crisis, and the implications of these issues for the future of the tree and woodland sector are necessarily being foregrounded in management discussions. Sycamore is a naturalised, fast-growing, and adaptable species with increasing evidence to support...
Forest Research is developing a framework to assess the performance of UK tree species against a comprehensive set of evaluation criteria. The framework will be used with key industry stakeholders to select the most promising species for promotion, to diversify species composition and increase the resilience of our forests and...
