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Research agency for the Forestry Commission.
Scientific services to support sustainable forestry.
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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
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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-...
How do farmers feel about growing trees? - Forest Research
Forest Research says understanding values is key to finding out what motivates farmers to grow trees.
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November 26, 2025 at 10:34 AM
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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
November 25, 2025 at 10:27 AM
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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
Timber Price Indices - Forest Research
Timber Statistics which includes Timber Price Indices/Coniferous Standing Sales Price Index
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November 20, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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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
November 19, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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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
November 19, 2025 at 11:24 AM
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👏 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.
November 18, 2025 at 12:51 PM
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🌿 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
November 14, 2025 at 10:14 AM
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📣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...
November 13, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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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
Liz O'Brien presenting to an audience in front of a screen with a presentation showing. Large mural on a building wall depicting mountains, trees, and a river with Korean text above the landscape scene. People exploring a room with a panoramic forest scene projected on the walls. Four people standing on a gravel path in a forested area with hammocks tied between trees in the background.
November 10, 2025 at 9:56 AM
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🌍 @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
November 7, 2025 at 9:09 AM
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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.

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November 5, 2025 at 11:23 AM
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📢🤝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-...
Owners and agents needed for new project about woodland structure and biodiversity potential - Forest Research
Woodland owners/agents in England needed for new project exploring woodland structure and biodiversity potential.
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November 4, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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🌿 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
October 31, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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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
Developing a future productive tree species list for Scotland - Forest Research
Forest Research has created a shortlist of 28 tree species to help diversify and strengthen Scotland’s forests against pests, disease and climate change.
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October 30, 2025 at 9:50 AM
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👋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
October 29, 2025 at 9:23 AM
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Site managers are often unsure how visitors perceive dead & decaying trees in the landscape.

📘 Full report: forestresearch.gov.uk/news/public-...

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Funded by Defra's #NatureforClimate
Public feels positively about dead and decaying trees, finds new research - Forest Research
Three-quarters of visitors felt neutral, happy, or very happy about a visible dead or decaying tree.
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October 23, 2025 at 11:24 AM
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🤩 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
October 22, 2025 at 11:29 AM
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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
October 17, 2025 at 11:27 AM
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A day in the life of an Applied Biologist...

All through #BiologyWeek we'll be showcasing the diverse careers of our applied biology community 🌱

First up join Mirabelle Ostle, a Forest Ecological Advisor for @forestresearchuk.bsky.social, as she walks us through her working day 🌲

#IAmABiologist
October 13, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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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
New woodland offers unique social benefits to local communities - Forest Research
Forest Research explored views and benefits of tree planting and woodland creation.
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October 14, 2025 at 10:02 AM
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🆕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
Logs in stack in woods
October 8, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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🌳 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
October 3, 2025 at 8:19 AM
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💦 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
Blenheim Palace and the Woodland Water Code - Forest Research
Discover how Blenheim Palace is piloting the Woodland Water Code to guide strategic woodland creation.
www.forestresearch.gov.uk
October 2, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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🌳 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...
September 30, 2025 at 8:12 AM
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📢 BRITAIN'S FOREST FUTURE: RESEARCH-PRACTICE EXCHANGE 🌳

Join us for the most significant forest and woodland research, policy and practice knowledge-exchange event in 2025!

📍 Durham
📅 17 & 18 November 2025

🔗 Find out more and book your place: britainsforestfuture.zohobackstage.eu/event
Britain’s Forest Future: Research-Practice Exchange
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September 29, 2025 at 11:52 AM