Britain is home to around a hundred common tree species ... Sycamore tree on a street in Scotland. Image courtesy of Roger Griffith via Wikimedia Commons. Sycamore trees offer food and habitat to a ...

Alan Watson Featherstone reveals the many threats faced by Scotland native aspen trees – a species that created the world oldest and largest living organism For some people, the word ‘aspen ...

The National Trust for Scotland is embarking on an ambitious project to record all the ancient, veteran and notable trees across its entire estate.

In one Scottish study over a period of 39 years, planting native trees on heather moorlands, with large soil carbon stores found no evidence of net carbon sequestration. The University said the ...

While using frozen trees is not common practice in Scotland, it is a technique deployed in Canada where FLS Steward Forester Paige Klinkman originally hails from. Ms Klinkman said: “Freezing the trees ...

Alan Crawford, National Trust for Scotland Senior Nature Conservation Officer, said: “Ancient native woodlands as well as ancient and veteran trees are incredibly biodiverse habitats.