This National Tree Week, PhD student, Fritha, tells us about the work she and CFP intern Jack are doing to discover attitudes to elm restoration – who cares, why they care and what we can do about it. They would love to see you at one of their workshops.
Our recent findings on genetic bottlenecks were presented at the 3rd International Congress on Evolutionary Biology.
Centre for Forest Protection researchers had the opportunity to present work at the enormous IUFRO World Congress 2024. Find out what they made of it.
Our researchers have been busy creating a new genome resource
PhD student Jiaqi tells us about her work investigating potential impacts on British trees of a bacterial disease that is causing major problems for crop growers across the world.
Phoebe tells us what she got up to during her internship at Kew.
Read about Sian’s six months as a Centre for Forest Protection intern.
Find out about what our intern Eve got up to on her six month Centre for Forest Protection placement with Forest Research.
Our interns had an exciting week. They presented their projects to our science teams and then had two days of visits to find out more about research at Kew and Forest Research. They were joined at the Forest Research tour by three of our Postdoctoral Researchers from Kew wanting to find out more about their partner organisation in the Centre for Forest Protection.
Centre for Forest Protection teams and other interested researchers got together to exchange ideas and hear updates about the Centre.
University of Southampton and Centre for Forest Protection PhD student Alexandra Ash is investigating the bark-stripping behaviour of grey squirrels to identify future methods to prevent tree damage. Alexandra tells us about the challenges of navigating problem-solving in the field to develop the best experimental set-up for feeding trials.