It’s National Plant Health Week (11 – 17 May 2026) and today we are celebrating plant and tree health science and scientists! Our education and training programme aims to train future forest protection scientists as well as provide continuous professional development (CPD) opportunities for those already working in the sector.
As part of National Plant Health Week (11 – 17 May 2026) and the CFP’s fourth anniversary, we’re celebrating our successes and looking ahead to exciting upcoming activities!
This National Plant Health Week (11-17 May 2026) we’re taking the opportunity to celebrate the many brilliant individuals and organisations who work hard to protect tree health. To kick off the week, we’re reflecting on an inspiring day recently spent at Kew Gardens with many of our fantastic scientists.
Our brilliant fourth cohort of interns recently came to the end of their time with us after contributing valuable work to their research projects and gaining lots of great experience in return!
On 17 & 18 November 2025, several of our CFP researchers travelled to Durham to present their work at ‘Britain’s Forest Future: Research-Practice Exchange’.
The postgraduate level module is designed to equip the current and next generation of forestry specialists with the knowledge and skills necessary to combat escalating threats to UK and global forest ecosystems.
Stakeholders representing organisations from Scotland, England and Wales joined researchers at the Forest Research Northern Research Station on 26 November to help shape the next phase of our EXPLORATION project.
On 29 October, The Wind within the Trees project held their first stakeholder workshop at Queen Elizabeth Forest Park near Aberfoyle in Scotland.
New research from the Centre for Forest Protection and University of St Andrews highlights the importance of considering social and cultural values when restoring ‘lost’ tree species.
At the start of October, we welcomed our fourth cohort of interns to the Centre for Forest Protection.
In Nov 25, we held the first biannual meeting of CFP Phase 2, bringing together the CFP Core Team, Board Members, Defra and CFP Project Leads, researchers and collaborators.
Tomorrow (22 Nov) marks the start of National Tree Week 2025, the UK’s largest annual celebration of trees!
On 21 October, the team behind Centre for Forest Protection Phase 2 project ‘Speed Breeding Technologies for UK Broadleaved Trees’ held their first in-person meeting.
The new Centre for Forest Protection (CFP) Lead joins us from The Tree Council.
Join us for the most significant forest and woodland research, policy and practice knowledge-exchange event in 2025!
Learn more about non-native pests and diseases, transmission pathways, biosecurity measures, and more in our second e-learning module.
Earlier this year, we ran a series of webinars to showcase the results from some of our phase 1 research projects.
Scientists from Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and Forest Research have today published a new study comparing the benefits of tree planting vs natural colonisation for future resilience of UK woodlands.
As part of one of our new research projects, scientists at Forest Research are seeking practitioners who have experience of planting, managing or overseeing a tree species mixture to take part in a short survey.
We are recruiting six new interns across Forest Research and Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew to work on a wide range of projects. Take a look to see if there is one for you!
Our team attended the Royal Horticultural Society Green Careers event recently promoting the many interesting careers available in forestry and forestry science.
Learn about some of the key pest and disease threats to our trees and woodlands.
The Centre for Forest Protection has been awarded £4m to support 17 more projects in 2025-26.
Our Kew researchers have been exchanging knowledge with international ash genomics research.
Join us at the end of March to hear about our latest research findings.
Our recent findings on genetic bottlenecks were presented at the 3rd International Congress on Evolutionary Biology.
Our researchers have been busy creating a new genome resource
Centre for Forest Protection teams and other interested researchers got together to exchange ideas and hear updates about the Centre.
Talor Witham, PhD student with the Centre for Forest Protection at Forest Research and Reading University presented at a recent specialist conference in Nanjing.
Kew Research Leader Dr Laura Kelly has a new Centre for Forest Protection project starting this Autumn.