Find out about Cas’ internship learning bioinformatics techniques to support our understanding of the elm genome.
Louise Gathercole
CFP attend RHS Green Careers Event
Our team attended the Royal Horticultural Society Green Careers event recently promoting the many interesting careers available in forestry and forestry science.
Intern diary – Josh the nematode nerd
Josh became quite an expert in identifying tiny microscopic worms!
Learn about pests and diseases with our e-learning module
Learn about some of the key pest and disease threats to our trees and woodlands.
Intern diary – Katy on methods to detect a bacterial threat
This National Plant Health Week – find out about Katy’s internship experience working on lab methods to detect bacteria that are a potential threat to our trees.
Intern diary – Apoorva on annotating the genome of an ash tree
This National Plant Health Week find out about Kew intern Apoorva’s tree health work supporting genomics research into high and low susceptibility to ash dieback.
Defra Announces New Funding for the Centre for Forest Protection
The Centre for Forest Protection has been awarded £4m to support 17 more projects in 2025-26.
Intern Diary – Catherine on Mapping Elm
This National Plant Health Week, find out about Catherine’s intern project mapping elm that survived Dutch elm disease in the UK.
Intern Diary – Jack on public perceptions of ‘lost’ tree species
During National Plant Health Week, Find out about Jack’s experience as a CFP intern working on a social science project on elm trees.
Ash genomics conference
Our Kew researchers have been exchanging knowledge with international ash genomics research.
A Day of Discovery: Centre for Forest Protection Interns Explore Wakehurst’s Millennium Seed Bank and Gardens
Last week, our six Centre for Forest Protection interns had an inspiring and informative visit to Kew’s wild botanic garden at Wakehurst. This unique opportunity gave them a behind-the-scenes look at the Millennium Seed Bank, a world-renowned conservation facility dedicated to safeguarding plant biodiversity.
Centre for Forest Protection Webinars
Join us at the end of March to hear about our latest research findings.
Elm loss and restoration – who cares?
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.
CFP Researcher Presentation on Genetic Bottlenecks
Our recent findings on genetic bottlenecks were presented at the 3rd International Congress on Evolutionary Biology.
Work with us!
Click on the ‘Work With Us’ button at the top of the homepage to find out about current opportunities to partner with the Centre for Forest Protection.
Centre for Forest Protection Internship Vacancies at Forest Research
We are recruiting three interns at Forest Research on a wide range of projects. Take a look to see if there is one for you!
Centre for Forest Protection at the IUFRO World Congress 2024
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.
A new reference genome from a healthy ash tree
Our researchers have been busy creating a new genome resource
National Plant Health Week – Understanding a devastating bacterial pathogen
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.
Intern diary – Phoebe
Phoebe tells us what she got up to during her internship at Kew.
Intern Diary – Sian
Read about Sian’s six months as a Centre for Forest Protection intern.
Intern Diary – Eve
Find out about what our intern Eve got up to on her six month Centre for Forest Protection placement with Forest Research.
Sharing Expertise with Interns and Postdoctoral Researchers
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.
CFP Symposium
Centre for Forest Protection teams and other interested researchers got together to exchange ideas and hear updates about the Centre.
Squirrel snacks and troublesome badgers: The challenges of setting up research in the field
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.
CFP PhD Student wins first prize at a conference
Talor Witham, PhD student with the Centre for Forest Protection at Forest Research and Reading University presented at a recent specialist conference in Nanjing.
Curious cows and slime flux – a fieldwork update on our genetic bottlenecks project
Researchers Nikki Cotterill from Forest Research, and Guillermo Friis from Kew tell us about their fieldwork this spring and summer. They have been sampling trees for genomic analysis and assessing tree health in naturally colonised and planted woodlands.
A new project about threats to non-native tree species
Kew Research Leader Dr Laura Kelly has a new Centre for Forest Protection project starting this Autumn.
Welcome to our second cohort of interns
Meet our new cohort of Centre for Forest Protection Interns
Improved ash reference genome
New and improved – a chromosomal level reference genome for European ash.

























