by Milly Bell | Dec 16, 2025 | Blog, Project Blogs
Scots pine is a cornerstone of Britain’s native woodlands and an essential species for forestry. Its adaptability makes it vital for creating resilient forests that can withstand pests, diseases, and the impacts of climate change. By maintaining and improving the...
by Milly Bell | Dec 5, 2025 | News
Published today in People and Nature, this research focuses on the loss of millions of elm trees, and ongoing efforts to bring them back. It emphasises that biological extinction is not the only form of ‘loss’. Functional traits and social or cultural connections also...
by Milly Bell | Nov 27, 2025 | News
The Centre for Forest Protection internship programme, introduced in early 2023, aims to nurture the next generation of forest scientists. Interns work on a research project within one of the Centre for Forest Protection research teams complemented by additional...
by Milly Bell | Nov 25, 2025 | News
Background The Centre for Forest Protection (CFP) was launched in May 2022. Since then, a first phase of research projects (2022-2025) have been complete and outputs are beginning to be published, with many more to come. In April 2025, Phase 2 of the CFP began, with...
by Milly Bell | Nov 24, 2025 | Blog, Intern Blogs, PhD Blogs
PhD student, and former intern with the Centre for Forest Protection, Phoebe Swift tells us about her route into a career in tree genomics… Where it began… Having grown up in the rural Cotswolds, I have always been surrounded by nature – from dense...
