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Christmas comes but once a year and choosing your Christmas tree is undoubtedly one of the highlights of the festive season. But how do you choose the best Christmas tree for your home and keep it looking good throughout Christmas and into the New Year?

Doves have cancelled their Forest Live 2022 date. Please find below statements from Forestry England and the band regarding the cancellation:

Arts Council England and Forestry England have embarked on a revitalised partnership to bring contemporary arts and new audiences to the nation’s forests.

There are so many beautiful woodlands across the country to enjoy as we begin to welcome in autumn. Bright skies, bracing walks and a kaleidoscope of colour are all a welcome change as our most colourful season arrives.

The Forestry England Woodland Partnership, which offers long-term rental income to farmers, landowners and public bodies in return for a minimum 50-hectare lease, is moving to a year-round scheme with applications now welcome at any time.

A group of the UK’s rarest lizard – the Sand Lizard - have been released back into the wild in Dorset. Over 140 of these endangered species, bred at several locations including Marwell Zoo and Forestry England’s New Forest Reptile Centre, were released in a partnership project led by Amphibian and Reptile Conservation (ARC) to return these species from near extinction.

A provenance trial studying Norway spruce trees growing from seeds sourced from 16 different European locations has got underway in a long-term project to identify trees likely to be resilient to climate conditions 50 years from now.

White-tailed eagles successfully returning to the English landscape. Reintroduction project releases a further 12 birds from the Isle of Wight. 

Grizedale revealed as the location to launch major new Sky Arts series, Landmark. This, the first of six programmes will air on 6 September 2021.

Conservationists have confirmed that pine martens, a species previously only thought to have survived largely in the North of England, have established a population in the New Forest in southern England. A team from Forestry England, Hampshire & Isle of Wight Wildlife Trust, and Wild New Forest will be studying them over the next year to find out more about how these rare creatures are living in the Forest.

A call is being made for people across the world to contribute film footage and sound recordings of their favourite forests and woodlands for a collective film highlighting the impact of the climate emergency on the world’s forests.

Kielder chicks first of their kind for two centuries For the first time in at least 200 years chicks have been born to osprey fathers who themselves fledged in Northumberland.

Forestry England are converting orchard-origin stands of twelve thousand Scots pine in Kings Forest, Suffolk, to secure high-quality seeds to meet their tree planting targets over the coming years.

In the lead up to COP26, as climate change and the alarming decline in biodiversity come into sharp focus, the country’s largest land manager Forestry England has launched a new partnership programme for businesses

Forestry England, the country’s largest land manager, has recorded the highest ever number of visits to the nation’s forests across England over the last year.

Hiding under leaf debris, tucked beneath cracked bark and flying in the tree canopy, insects exploit every nook of the nation’s forests.

From February 1978 to May 1978 David Nash and his young family came to Grizedale Forest where he undertook the second artist’s residency opportunity which helped give Grizedale its name as the first Forest for Sculpture.

Taking family forest walks to new heights, The Gruffalo is returning to the deep, dark wood in the latest exciting partnership between Forestry England, Magic Light Pictures and Nexus Studios

Rag‘n’Bone Man has added an extra date as part of Forest Live, the summer concert series presented by Forestry England, playing Delamere Forest in June 2022.

Susan Stockwell FRSS and early-career artist Florian Houlker will be the latest artists joining the list of leading international artists who have been invited to work in Grizedale Forest.

Forestry England’s, Bedgebury National Pinetum in Goudhurst, Kent has been awarded a Level 4 Accreditation by The ArbNet Arboretum Accreditation Program.

After the successful running series in 2019, Forestry England are again offering people a chance to challenge themselves and enjoy the freedom, fresh air and scenery of the nation’s forests this autumn in their new running series; Forest Runner.

We have been greatly saddened at the Forestry Commission by the death of HRH The Duke of Edinburgh.