This week we're excitedly preparing for LEAF Day 2026 - our one day annual meeting for folks interested in trees and woodlands! If you're based at the Uni of Leeds, are free on Friday, and that sounds like you, then check out the programme and register at leaf.leeds.ac.uk/events/leaf-...

We're currently curating our winter newsletter, out soon. What to expect? A farmer pointing at a post, carcass ecology, new staff start, we're the topic of "Wildwood" a photographic talk. Plus volunteer dates & wildlife videos. Sign up▶️ mailchi.mp/1dd189bd3314...

This week we're excitedly preparing for LEAF Day 2026 - our one day annual meeting for folks interested in trees and woodlands! If you're based at the Uni of Leeds, are free on Friday, and that sounds like you, then check out the programme and register at leaf.leeds.ac.uk/events/leaf-...

Our research with the SECO project to understand the trajectory of the dry tropics depends on a team of wonderful people across the world, working in Peru, Brazil and beyond, in fieldwork, data management and lab analysis. Here are some of their stories: www.leeds.ac.uk/directory-re...

A new study from @ellesmith.bsky.social highlights consistently low levels of access to trees and greenspaces across English cities. Read more about it here: leaf.leeds.ac.uk/news/english... .🌐🌍🧪

"Trees: from seeds to saplings" was the theme of the last event of 2025 from the Cumbria Biodiversity Data Centre. Really useful knowledge sharing. Next year's events are linked below. @cumbriawildlife.bsky.social @leedsleaf.bsky.social @forestryengland.bsky.social www.cbdc.org.uk/get-involved...

- and finally, a lesson in tree translation from Dr Robin Hayward (@canopyrobin.com), of @leedsleaf.bsky.social! How do we best learn from tropical trees, to promote and manage woodland regeneration? Also featuring some scent-sational seasonal stocking fillers…! 🌲 🍊 🌴

University of Birmingham, UK, are advertising a permanant position (Assistant or Associate Professor) in *Forests under Global Change*. A wide net has been cast - ecology, physiology, modelling, remote sensing, functioning, biodiversity, management... 🌲🌱🌳🌳🦌🌳🛰️🐿️🌲🔬🌳 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPS459/a...

Excited to see the Upper Duddon Landscape Recovery project highlighted in this recent blog from @naturalengland.bsky.social. We're working together with partner organisations and local communities to bring landscape recovery benefits, plus new opportunities for nature-based learning and volunteering

One space left for our last volunteer day of 2025! Please share. @envleeds.bsky.social @leedsleaf.bsky.social @forestryengland.bsky.social www.trybooking.com/uk/FIGS

If you've been enjoying #NationalTreeWeek as much as we have and don't want the fun to be over, we have good news! For those local to Leeds, @canopyrobin.com will be representing the team with a talk on Christmas tree communication at Quantum Sauce next tuesday! 🎄

It's #NationalTreeWeek and yesterday we planted 800 trees along the edges of a newly rebuilt bridleway. It'll stablise the work and create a lovely mixed corridor of woodland in years to come. Oak, aspen, alder and grey willow pegs went in. @leedsleaf.bsky.social @forestryengland.bsky.social

Looks like my scything efforts last week paid off to get a few hundred trees planted into our new hedgerow!

Protecting and restoring forests boosts farming and food security. New @fao.org report presented at COP30 brings together recent research including work from @drcarlyreddington.bsky.social @universityofleeds.bsky.social @envleeds.bsky.social @leedsleaf.bsky.social

Decent views in the Duddon valley today. Not a bad day for our contractors felling larch for the project's timber needs. @leedsleaf.bsky.social @envleeds.bsky.social @forestryengland.bsky.social

At least Tombo and Hazbop have been busy peeling pointing and generally processing our larch into perfect posts. In contrast, local celebrity farmer Paddy seems to think he's done his bit. @leedsleaf.bsky.social @forestryengland.bsky.social

This #NationalTreeWeek we're celebrating all the research and practical conservation and restoration work that's done across our group. For example, a massive thankyou to our regular Friends of #GairWood group for their hard work planting a new hedge at our research woodland over the weekend!

🎄Is your #Christmas tree talking to you - and if it was, would you want to know?! Translating the bio-signs of your festive fir, ecologist @canopyrobin.com brings a Quantum Qristmas to #Farsley @oldwoollen.bsky.social! 2nd Dec, tickets at tinyurl.com/ye5dwtm5 🧠 Bring your brain & pull up a pint! 🍻

Voting for this funding closes on Friday. Please share this post and vote for the Alliance for Northern Nature in the WILD PLACES category. Thanks. @forestryengland.bsky.social @nationaltrust.org.uk @earthandenvleeds.bsky.social @leedsleaf.bsky.social @cumbriacvs.bsky.social

We're up for some funding! Please support our work by voting for us in the WILD PLACES category. Shares much appreciated, as the funding depends on a public vote. @earthandenvleeds.bsky.social @universityofleeds.bsky.social @leedsleaf.bsky.social www.eocaconservation.org/vote/

Can planting hedgerows help prevent flooding? Join us on 10th Dec, 12.00-12.40 to hear from Prof Pippa Chapman & Dr Sofia Biffi. Pippa & Sofia have explored how hedgerows of different ages (from under 5 years to decades old) affect how well soil absorbs and drains water. 👇

See press release here: www.stir.ac.uk/news/2025/oc...

New OA publication from TreE_PlaNat project @uktreescapes.bsky.social in Ecological Solutions and Evidence: Creating woodland through natural processes: Current understanding and knowledge gaps in Great Britain besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Our Autumn newsletter is out tomorrow, with volunteer dates, wildlife sightings, a video of a damp badger and more. You can sign up to get it here: mailchi.mp/1dd189bd3314... @envleeds.bsky.social @leedsleaf.bsky.social @cumbriacvs.bsky.social

📢 PhD opportunity! 📢 Join me, @ejduncan.bsky.social, Tom Sloan + the wider #GairWood team to investigate climate-resilient woodlands in the UK 🌳 with @yes-dtn.bsky.social @earthandenvleeds.bsky.social @leedsleaf.bsky.social

PhD opportunity! 🌳🧪🌐🌍

Fancy doing a PhTree? Here's a thread of some fantastic PhD opportunities advertising right now to research trees and forests! 🧵🌍🌐🧪🌳

We've written a blog about our new paper! 🔎If you want to find out about net-zero aligned afforestation in the UK and how this might impact future biogenic emissions in a warmer climate, check out the summary blog @leedsleaf.bsky.social🌳☁️🌍

Increasing woodland cover to 19% to help reach net-zero could change the biogenic emissions from UK woodlands. @treeswithhazel.bsky.social’s latest research shows the potential scale of change by 2050 associated with different tree species mixes. Find out more here: leaf.leeds.ac.uk/news/why-pla...

🚨Our new paper introduces the #AirQualityStripes – a visual tool to show how outdoor air pollution (PM2.5) has changed in 🌍 cities since 1850. Inspired by the iconic #WarmingStripes. Led by @kirstypringle.bsky.social & @jimmcquaid.bsky.social 🔗 airqualitystripes.info 📄 doi.org/10.5194/gc-8... 🧵👇

The tour continues...what a busy & chatty morning we had at West Cumbria Volunteering Fair. Jack's addition of a microscope to examine lichens was a winner. We nearly ran out of leaflets! @reachvolunteering.org.uk @cumbriacvs.bsky.social @leedsleaf.bsky.social @forestryengland.bsky.social

Fungi fun this month at Restoring Hardknott Forest and Nature Rich Miterdale. @leedsleaf.bsky.social @universityofleeds.bsky.social @wildhaweswater.bsky.social

About 1000 wildflowers were planted by the banks of the River Duddon on Sunday. Devils-bit scabious, betony, common knapweed & more. Great work & "well done everyone". @leedsleaf.bsky.social @wildhaweswater.bsky.social @cumbriacvs.bsky.social @wildflowerhour.bsky.social @envleeds.bsky.social

It was an honour to be at the launch of the Ingleborough NNR into the King's Series of NNRs earlier this month - check out the blog below for more on what the #WildIngleborough partnership has achieved since forming in 2021 🌳🦋🐦

New study led by @drcarlyreddington.bsky.social tracks climate heating and human health impacts of tropical deforestation @universityofleeds.bsky.social @leedsleaf.bsky.social @universityofleeds.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Ingleborough just levelled up! 💚 More wild land, more rare species, more reasons to grab your boots and explore. Nature’s winning big in Yorkshire—come see why! 👇 www.ywt.org.uk/blog/wild-ingleborough/wild-ingleborough-reaching-new-heights-wildlife #WildIngleborough #KingsNNR #NatureRecovery

All our volunteering dates and other events (including a Halloween bat walk 🦇 & tree planting days 🌳) are listed on our website (link below). Dates for our partner project at Miterdale are also listed. bag.leeds.ac.uk/projects/res... @envleeds.bsky.social @leedsleaf.bsky.social

Want to hear more about our tree/forest research? Make sure you're following the wonderful people on our @leedsleaf.bsky.social starter pack! go.bsky.app/7cwhin3

Izzy, our seasonal field worker, has had a busy summer helping us with baseline habitat and species monitoring. She's also sent us some great video clips...the first is a badger...

Last week I gave a talk for the @linneansociety.bsky.social lunchtime lecture series, all about woodland creation! I tried to keep it interesting for non-specialist audiences so, if you fancy an hour of woodland wondering, you can check out the recording here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwoH...

Newly planted trees face many challenges including drought 🌡️, browsing by wild animals 🦌, competing vegetation 🌿, and vandalism 🚓. We're hoping to initiate a network to share strategies, outcomes, and best practice across our region.

The session on 14th July is open to anyone with a professional interest in woodland creation in the north of England - with a particular focus on stakeholders and forest practitioners in the @whiteroseforest.bsky.social area (West and North Yorkshire).

To kick this off @leedsleaf.bsky.social + @whiteroseforest.bsky.social are hosting a free workshop on 14th July at #GairWood in Leeds to discuss progress with, and challenges to, successful woodland establishment: tinyurl.com/woodestablishment

Led by a man literally outstanding in his field, Duddon Valley farmer Paddy Deady showed Millom School students around his hay meadows this week. We had a go at some flower & grass ID, with time for a trip across the stepping stones before the bus back to school. @envleeds.bsky.social

We were ring barking on our volunteer day at the weekend. This will create some fantastic standing dead wood habitat, as well as removing some non-native trees. Great to have some new faces along as well as the regulars. Thanks everyone! @envleeds.bsky.social @leedsleaf.bsky.social

Our comms officer @canopyrobin.com was at #CheltSciFest this weekend, sharing some of our knowledge around woodland creation and the use of pressed specimens and artwork for plant identification

How would you create a woodland? Join Dr Robin Hayward @canopyrobin.com on Weds 02 July as they share the work being done to understand the landscape-scale dynamics of woodland creation and the importance of innovation in how we engage with them. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/an-allianc...

Today I'm working at Gair Wood (the University of Leeds research woodland we planted in 2023). I should also have a little time for social media in between tasks so ask me anything and I'll do my best to respond! #AMA 🌳

Red squirrel fans should enjoy our latest YouTube video. The camera was set up by Millom School students on their recent visit. @envleeds.bsky.social @leedsleaf.bsky.social @naturalengland.bsky.social youtu.be/ESiq6ASPHvg?...

The forest space age needs eyes on the ground rdcu.be/enT5S @bzgeo.bsky.social @leedsleaf.bsky.social @researchleeds.bsky.social @tropicalforesters.bsky.social @cienciatropical.bsky.social @ymalhi.bsky.social @congobasinscience.bsky.social @groundtruth.app @erikaberenguer.bsky.social