Our team attended the Royal Horticultural Society Green Careers event recently promoting the many interesting careers available in forestry and forestry science.

On this International Day of Plant Health we are pleased to announce the launch of an e-learning module introducing some of the key pest and disease threats to our trees and woodlands. The CFP is developing continuous professional development (CPD) training for those...

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.

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.

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!

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.

Meet our new cohort of Centre for Forest Protection Interns

New and improved – a chromosomal level reference genome for European ash.

The two halves of our birch project came together this week.

Our researcher Danny has been out looking at trees suffering from ash dieback.

We are proud about having our researchers talk about the latest findings and current project status during the Trees for Climate Change, Biodiversity and People conference. Thank you for inviting us!