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?
When saplings went to the wrong address and volunteers didn't show up, circumstances couldn't stop us. We still planted 800 trees in Mid-Wales.
One in six species is currently at risk of vanishing from Wales, which has seen a 20% decrease on average in its wildlife over the last 30 years.
After the December storms that battered the UK, walking through favourite trails in West Wales revealed stark aftermath—fallen trees littered the landscape.
Protect Earth is a UK-based environmental charity focused on increasing biodiversity in the British Isles. And doing it the right way.
Putting Labour's budget to the test: Are environmental promises adding up? Exploring whether financial plans support nature-friendly farming and habitat restoration.
The Tukes, landowners near Honiton, Devon, had a plan, permission, and funding to expand an established woodland, adding 2,050 more saplings. But they needed help with that final step, getting the...
Two years ago, Protect Earth bought 70 acres of overgrazed hillside on Goytre Hill, near Knighton in Mid-Wales, to create a new woodland.
As Storm Bert swept the UK, Oxford Year 5 and 6 students planted 980 saplings, creating a mini-forest and learning about tackling climate change.
Marking our first planting north of the border, Protect Earth planted 2,675 native saplings across 1.5 acres of East Ayrshire farmland to create shelterbelts and woodlands.
AI has been everywhere since ChatGPT dropped in late 2022. Behind all that whirring and chugging is some high energy consumption.
Many ways to support biodiversity in the UK, even at home. Planting more things and thinking about what insects and animals to attract will increase biodiversity.
Help us create and maintain new woodlands, hedgerows and wildflower meadows! We need volunteers to sow seeds, plant saplings, clear invasive plant species and pick up litter. No qualifications necessary; jobs for all ages and abilities. Come and turn climate anxiety into climate action!
Upcoming Events →With government funding for reforestation and rewilding tenuous, we increasingly rely on our amazing community to keep us growing regardless of political shifts. Help Protect Earth continue to restore ecosystems and improve biodiversity across the country:
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