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Michael Cunningham joins Protect Earth as Project Manager, bringing BSc in Conservation, chainsaw certification, and dedication to support all our projects.

Working with Reuseabox and a Nottinghamshire farmer to plant 1,000 saplings. Grassroots action and collaboration in action.

Join Bristol Avon River Trust for a day-long effort restoring riverbanks by removing invasive Himalayan balsam from the River Frome.

Ancient woodlands are magical pockets of nature continuously wooded since at least 1600, surviving monarchs, industrial revolutions, and bad landscaping decisions.

Screech Owl Sanctuary secured woodland creation funding and invited Protect Earth for a bit of tree planting. Our response was somewhere between gleeful and muddy.

This February, we returned to South Molton at the request of a brilliant landowner whose smallholding has become a little greener every time we visit. Our [previous...

Picture the countryside and there's likely a hedge—marking roadsides, giving dappled views. Hedgerows are ingrained in our countryside, yet they're disappearing.

Beavers, absent from UK since the 1500s, are returning. These keystone species boost biodiversity, help defend against floods, and purify water - for free.

Protect Earth partners with Menston Area Nature Trust to manage invasive rhododendron species damaging native wildlife habitat in East Wood, West Yorkshire.

Protect Earth recently returned to a project we planted with a farmer near Cheltenham in 2022 for essential woodland maintenance, including restocking dead saplings. This work exemplifies our...

The 2024/25 season wrapped up with 37,417 saplings planted across 55.85 acres - a 14% increase on last season despite government funding delays.

Protect Earth welcomed the community to Goytre Wood for a free one-day hedge-laying course. Led by local green man John, participants learned practical skills.

Invasive plant species are negatively affecting biodiversity in the UK. Protect Earth has the resources, tools, and skills required to control and remove invasive species helping biodiversity in the...

Many are divided on natural habitat restoration methods: natural regeneration versus the interventionist approach of planning species and creating woodlands.

Protect Earth completed planting 11,000 saplings in Nannerch, North Wales—one of our most significant projects to restore habitats and boost biodiversity.

Walking through a mature woodland full of gnarled trees and moss, you're likely in an ancient woodland. Despite their health, they still need management.

When [Wood Could Should](https://woodcouldshould.org/) set out to transform 8.5 acres of low-grade pastureland in Somerset into a thriving woodland, they knew it would take dedication, collaboration,...

Your young woodlands are raring to go—pushing out of their guards, stretching skyward, and ready to boost biodiversity. Now, how do you care for them, from saplings to thriving woodland members?