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Minister Andrew Muir MLA with John Martin and Jerry Hawe, Woodland Trust NI

Ministerial visit showcases innovative agroforestry project

Music legend Nile Rodgers, Co-Founder & Chairman and Nancy Hunt, Co-Founder and President, We Are Family Foundation, gave the Woodland Trust Northern Ireland’s 30th birthday celebrations a boost as they helped plant 30 native trees in the Faughan Valley on Saturday 7 February 2026.

Music legend Nile Rodgers helps native trees have Good Times

Scots pine at Ballochbuie Pinewood, Balmoral Estate. Picture - The James Hutton Institute

Study reveals importance of protecting the UK’s Scots pine woodland biodiversity

Life partners and co-founders of We Are Family Foundation, Nile Rodgers and Nancy Hunt planting trees with the Woodland Trust. Credit: Charles Sainsbury-Plaice

Music legend Nile Rodgers says ‘We Are Family’ when it comes to trees

Aaron Ward, director of public engagement at NMNI and John Martin, director, Woodland Trust Northern Ireland

Ulster Folk Museum site restoring woodland area larger than four football fields

The Woodland Trust is urging gardeners not to buy Rhododendron ponticum this spring, as it looks to protect our native woods and wildlife

Rhododendron is destroying our native woods and wildlife warns Woodland Trust NI

Carnmoney Hill

Stand up for Bluebells urges the Woodland Trust in April and May

Mourne Park, is set to reopen following damage from Storms Darragh and Éowyn, with a significant financial windfall from The National Lottery Heritage Fund

Mourne Park awarded £2.5m windfall from The National Lottery Heritage Fund

Agroforestry in action.

New free agroforestry toolkit for farmers, estate managers and land agents launc...

Fungi on forest floor and leaves in ancient woodland in Mourne Park, Northern Ireland

Get out and explore autumn’s beauty in local native woodlands near you

Carla Lockhart MP

NI excluded from Woodland Trust scheme

National Trust staff Kevin Duncan and Patrick Doran talk about no-fence technology protecting delicate habitats in the Mournes following wildfires

The Nature Friendly Farming Network (NFFN) had a strong presence at Balmoral

Applications are now being taken for planting between November 2024 and March 2025. (Picture: Woodland Trust Media Library)

Landowners encouraged to plant for climate and nature

Hedgerow expert Jasper Prachek gives advice to Hope Valley farmer Denise Matthews as she prepares for planting on her farm. Picture: Submitted

PEF to plant 6km of new hedges this winter for nature and carbon capture

Forever Mournes (left to right) Andrew Corkill, Paul Harper, Rebecca Allen, Deborah Lowry, Maia Taylor, John Joe Cassidy, Heather McLachlan, Mariclare Gallagher, Martin Carey, Patrick Lynch

Organisations mark second anniversary of Mournes fire with milestone

Environment Minister Edwin Poots pictured with Paul Armstrong and Dave Scott from the Woodland Trust at Mourne Park outside Kilkeel where the funding of £972k from the Environment Fund is helping restore ancient woodland.

New £4,000,000 investment will boost 47 environmental projects
Environment Minister Edwin Poots has announced that 28 organisations are set to benefit from £4million to help deliver key environmental projects.
Joanne Knox

Back left to right: Committee members Harry Sinclair, Hilary Deery, Ian Buchanan, Fergal Donaghy, Stuart Elliott, William Henderson, Noel Cochrane, Dermot McCullagh, Front row, Terence McLaughlin, guest speakers Jo Boylan, Gregor Fulton both Woodland Trust and Emma Semple Secretary.

Woodland Trust explains the carbon benefits of trees on the farm

Call for more trees to tackle the climate crisis; here's how we can all help

Iain Heap, Director of IT, Process & Change at Hughes Insurance and Ian McCurley, Director of Woodland Trust.

Hughes Insurance makes £24,000 donation to Trust

Dolores Kelly .

Call for new strategy to restore our woodlands

According to the report, only seven per cent of UK native woodland is in good ecological condition (Photo: Richard Heathcote/Getty Images)

Why UK woodlands and trees are ‘approaching crisis point’

Cabin Wood. Picture: Michael Cooper

20 years of community Woods on Your Doorstep

Have you ever wondered why birds sing in the morning? (Photo: Shutterstock)

Here’s why birds sing early in the morning - and the dawn chorus explained

Pupils from schools across NI help DAERA Minister Edwin Poots MLA plant the first of 1,000 tree saplings at CAFRE’s Loughry College, Cookstown as part of the new ‘Forests For Our Future’ programme, which aims to plant 18 million trees by 2020.

DAERA tree planting scheme gets underway

Michael Topping, Outreach Advisor for Woodland Trust with contractor Patrick McLean

Woodland Trust helps Kilkeel tree restoration

Over 700,000 free trees available for communities to fight climate change

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Farmers to be helped to diversify and grow
Newry, Mourne and Down District Council is hosting a series of information evenings for farmers.
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Picture: Michael Cooper

Christmas gift for Castlewellan champion

UFU Environment Committee to host open meeting 20th September 2018 at 7.30pm

Soils, resilience and profitability '“ open meeting

The recently planted SeppyÂ’s Wood in County Armagh. Picture courtesy of Dr Sally Walmsley

Flourishing new Armagh wood is music to the ears

Are you ready, boots? Let's start planting. Picture: Allan Baxter

From keepers of bees to lovers of trees

Paddy McSparron, a sheep and cattle farmer in Glendun, looks forward to reaping the benefits of his tree-planting efforts. Photo by McAuley Multimedia.

Farmers unite to green up the Glens

Paddy McSparron, a farmer in Glendun.

Farmers unite to green up the Glens

Actor and Woodland Trust supporter Brian Blessed is lending his voice to the contest. Photo by Steve Cowell.

Blessed recognition for Northern Ireland's finest trees

A splash of colour in the Salisbury gardens

Two Co Tyrone gardens open their doors for charity

Forget the dark nights, spring has sprung

Turn your festive waste into woodland this January

Patrick Cregg of the Woodland Trust (left) and Alistair Livingstone, Chairman of LIGHT 2000, who nominated the winning tree.

'˜Old Homer' is namedNI's Tree of the Year

Old Homer, a holm oak in Rostrevors Kilbroney Park, has been crowned Northern Irelands Tree of the Year in a search for the nations best-loved tree. Organised by the Woodland Trust, the competition saw six trees compete for public votes. The champion, nominated by LIGHT 2000, will go on to represent Northern Ireland in the European Tree of the Year competition, which takes place next February

Landscape that inspired Narnia is home to Northern Ireland's Tree of the Year

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Why Ash Dieback eradication is no longer an option

Walkers try out the new pathways and feast their eyes upon the wildflowers at Brackfield Wood

Wildflower bouquet for Centenary Wood

Killaloo Wood

A once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for Northern Ireland's woodland, wildlife and p...

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