Uncategorized

The Observer ran a two-page feature on the UK rewilding scene in April 2025. Despite the somewhat clickbait title, the article is a hopeful survey of ground-up initiatives to acquire and manage land for nature recovery. We were honoured to be consulted in the research for the article, and quoted extensively.   Abandoned lynx, roaming […]

The Common team alongside the Lindors Wood Steering Group held a meeting at the St Briavels Assembly Room on Thursday 10 April. On a balmy spring evening, the bar was open and so were the doors to the venue overlooking the beautiful Wye Valley. It was a good job there was a patio space as

What’s in a name change? In 2015, most people probably paid no attention when the tech company Google changed its name to Alphabet. Nor indeed did many in 1997 when Google changed its name from (cough) BackRub. Several entire countries have changed their names over the past century, including Sri Lanka (‘holy isle’) from Ceylon,

4 December 2024: the Woodland Savers team along with colleagues from Lawyers for Nature, Woodknowledge Wales and Pryor & Rickett Silviculture made the trip to Alice Holt Lodge in Surrey for a day of discussions focused on Forest Research’s programmes, and alignments with the work of Woodland Savers and our partner organisations also gathered.  

On 2 November 2024, Woodland Savers worked with colleagues from Plant One CIC, My Little Farm, and Thousand Year Trust to convene a community meeting in the village of Gweek, on the Helford estuary in Cornwall. We were there to discuss a proposed community buy-out of farmland and hyperoceanic temperate rainforest up the valley from

If you take a train south from London Bridge station you may just catch a glimpse of Gorne Wood, a flash of green beside the tracks as you rattle between Brockley and Honor Oak Park. The three-acre wood in Lewisham is one of the last remaining patches of what was once a swathe of ancient

Two founders of the Borders Forest Trust (in red), a ranger, two sheepdogs, and a visiting group from Yorkshire Wildlife Trust stood for this picture at the head of the Carrifran Wildwood, a 780 hectare landscape restoration project begun in the minds of a few friends round a table in 1993, long before the words

We’re here to ask – and answer – some vital questions:   ? How can communities help reverse nature decline? ? How can the capital needed for nature recovery be unlocked? ? How can communities and nature best replenish one another?   Woodland Savers was founded in 2022 by Franny Armstrong, Tamsin Allen and Adam