tag:www.gov.uk,2005:/search/news-and-communications 2026-05-13T09:30:00+01:00 HM Government tag:www.gov.uk,2005:/government/case-studies/the-people-behind-plant-health-in-forestry 2026-05-13T09:30:00+01:00

Forestry Commission staff with plant health roles share how they contribute to protecting woodlands, forests and green spaces.

tag:www.gov.uk,2005:/government/news/tree-production-grants-reopen-for-applications 2026-05-06T09:30:02+01:00

Up to £6.5 million is available across 2 grants to boost resilience and productivity in domestic tree production.

tag:www.gov.uk,2005:/government/news/dorset-farmers-to-pay-33500-over-slurry-handling 2026-05-01T12:48:44+01:00

Farmers failed to properly store slurry in three separate cases, two of which led to pollution incidents.

tag:www.gov.uk,2005:/government/news/south-east-water-given-76000-penalty-for-water-supply-breach 2026-04-29T10:08:57+01:00

Human error blamed as enough water to fill 300,000 baths taken without Environment Agency licence

tag:www.gov.uk,2005:/government/news/essex-skip-hire-boss-and-firm-plead-guilty-to-waste-crime-charges 2026-04-08T14:47:58+01:00

'I don’t do e-mails' among excuses for not clearing overflowing skips

tag:www.gov.uk,2005:/government/news/landowner-ordered-to-pay-highest-ever-illegal-felling-fine 2026-04-02T10:00:03+01:00

A Leicestershire landowner is to pay £268,751 after illegal tree felling

tag:www.gov.uk,2005:/government/news/uk-and-the-solomon-islands-sign-mou-on-forest-governance 2026-04-02T06:10:30+01:00

The Solomon Islands government and the United Kingdom have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) formalising their partnership on forest governance under the UK-funded FGMC programme.

tag:www.gov.uk,2005:/government/news/fungus-among-us 2026-03-26T13:23:21+00:00

UK first for Sussex nature reserve – member of public stumbles on rare find.

tag:www.gov.uk,2005:/government/news/wainwright-way-becomes-englands-newest-national-trail 2026-03-26T00:01:02+00:00

National Trail opening is culmination years of work by Natural England and partners alongside £5.5 million government investment for upgrade

tag:www.gov.uk,2005:/government/news/competition-to-launch-national-forest-in-ox-cam-growth-corridor 2026-03-25T18:23:16+00:00

The government has launched a competition to help deliver a second new national forest, as search begins for a location for a third

tag:www.gov.uk,2005:/government/case-studies/from-grounds-maintenance-to-nature-recovery-ground-controls-journey-to-large-scale-woodland-creation 2026-03-25T12:00:03+00:00

Ground Control's Wildfell project in Essex combines woodland creation and habitat banking across 116 hectares, testing funding routes for nature recovery.

tag:www.gov.uk,2005:/government/news/spring-awakens-at-wealden-heaths-national-nature-reserve 2026-03-20T15:15:03+00:00

Part of the King's Series, establishing 25 new National Nature Reserves by 2028. Surrey's National Nature Reserve home to rare ground-nesting birds this spring

tag:www.gov.uk,2005:/government/news/king-charles-iii-england-coast-path-inaugurated-with-royal-visit 2026-03-20T10:45:54+00:00

His Majesty King Charles III launched the England Coast Path at an event at Seven Sisters today

tag:www.gov.uk,2005:/government/news/new-plans-to-reshape-how-we-protect-and-manage-our-land 2026-03-18T15:04:03+00:00

England’s first Land Use Framework sets out a plan for managing the country’s finite land to ensure the nation’s long-term resilience

tag:www.gov.uk,2005:/government/case-studies/reconnecting-the-past-how-the-landowner-of-racecourse-farm-is-restoring-his-grandfathers-woodland 2026-03-17T12:00:00+00:00

Landowner restores woodland through the England Woodland Creation Offer (EWCO), planting 23,015 native trees to reconnect fragmented habitats and offset carbon.

tag:www.gov.uk,2005:/government/news/biggest-boat-clean-up-in-a-decade-underway-on-upper-thames 2026-03-11T13:28:00+00:00

Environment Agency plans to remove blight in time for new season “Sunk, wrecked, abandoned – they’ve got to go” says Deputy Director of Navigation

tag:www.gov.uk,2005:/government/news/tree-disease-restrictions-lifted-across-seven-counties 2026-03-04T12:00:00+00:00

Trade restrictions brought in after Phytophthora pluvialis finding to be lifted in seven counties across England

tag:www.gov.uk,2005:/government/news/dorset-farmer-fined-after-failing-to-comply-with-slurry-notice 2026-03-02T13:10:03+00:00

There had been multiple pollution incidents involving the farm since 2012, but the defendant failed to increase slurry storage at the farm as required.

tag:www.gov.uk,2005:/government/news/englands-largest-land-manager-to-help-home-grown-clean-energy 2026-02-28T00:01:01+00:00

Consumers are set to benefit from more home-grown clean energy, with an increased number of renewable projects to be enabled on the public forest estate

tag:www.gov.uk,2005:/government/news/new-measures-to-help-woodlands-through-improved-deer-management 2026-02-20T10:01:00+00:00

One-third of England's woodlands now estimated to be damaged by deer, with urgent action needed to protect trees and wildlife