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Latest: Winter 2012 (New)
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Latest: Winter 2012 (New)
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News highlights
Winter 2011/2012:
- Forest Research reviewed by an independent panel
During November and December 2011 a group of seven senior external scientists, chaired by Professor Sir David Read FRS, reviewed ourscience quality. - Hands-on science at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh
The Real Life Science Lab at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh was the scene of a number of public events last year where adults and children could get hands-on experience of woodland-related science. - Harnessing new developments in molecular technology
Our molecular team has harnessed these developments to tackle practical forestry questions. - How much carbon and woodfuel do farm woodlands contain?
A survey of farm woodlands as a first step towards a better understanding of this growing land-use type and to increase its contribution to the green economy. - Linking forest risk to finance
Work on a new NERC Knowledge Translation project which aims to develop a Forest Finance Risk Network that will provide a link between researchers and the finance sector. - More Tree and Forest Health Days planned for 2012
We are planning another programme of Forest Health Days around Britain in 2012 following the success of seven such events in the Autumn of 2011. - Oak processionary moth
A recent research project has focused on finding the best methods of capturing the moths in order to determine their population and rates of spread. - Praise for Scots pine project
The recently completed ‘Developing the Scots Pine Resource’ project has been singled out for praise by the Programme Monitoring Committee of the Northern Periphery Programme. - Successful germination of threatened species
Seedlings of the rare Vietnamese Golden Cypress (Xanthocyparis vietnamensis) have germinated for the first time outside of Vietnam with assistance from our seed laboratory. - Woodland-related social enterprises
We identify both barriers and aids to establishing different types of woodland-related social enterprises.
Other news highlights from: 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006
Recent media releases
| New Disease Identified In Native Juniper Trees In Upper Teesdale | A damaging plant disease caused by Phytophthora austrocedrae has been confirmed in rare native juniper bushes in the North Pennines of England. - 09/02/2012 |
| Climate Threats To Uk Forests Set Out In National Risk Assessment | The threats and opportunities posed by climate change to the United Kingdom’s forests and woodland have been set out in the national Climate Change Risk Assessment published by the UK Government today. - 27/01/2012 |
| Biological Warfare Against Forest Pests In Wales – Revealed At National Botanic Gardens | Scientists, foresters and land managers from across Wales and from other parts of the UK and Ireland will be converging on the National Botanic Gardens next week to learn how insect pests in Welsh forests are being kept under control - by clever use of their own natural enemies. - 18/01/2012 |
| Pinetum Staff Make Vietnamese Breakthrough | Staff from England's National Pinetum at Bedgebury in Kent have achieved the first ever successful propagation of a critically endangered Vietnamese conifer tree species. - 11/01/2012 |
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