Tag: Ghost Woods

  • We Won the Ghost Woods campaign!

    We Won the Ghost Woods campaign!

    We have some incredibly exciting news to share… 🎉WE WON THE GHOST WOODS CAMPAIGN! 🎉 Defra have been keeping it on the down low, but we’re so happy to confirm that they have now committed to yearly funding for restoring our precious ancient woodlands. In an email to Rebecca Smith MP, nature minister Mary Creagh…

  • Record-breaking slugs say slime is up on woodland revival

    Record-breaking slugs say slime is up on woodland revival

    On the 19th of May, Wild Card assembled the largest ever gathering of people dressed as slugs to call on the government to deliver on its promise to restore the nation’s ‘ghost woods’ (ancient woodlands buried beneath timber plantations) before they disappear for good.

  • Rewilding Species of the Month: Slugs

    Rewilding Species of the Month: Slugs

    When choosing a rewilding species of the month, many species will stand out as clear options: the trophic cascading of the majestic eagle, the engineering prowess of the brilliant beaver, the splendid carbon sequestering seagrass. Few would consider the much-maligned slug. Yet this is exactly why slugs need to be chosen.  In rewilding the UK,…

  • Rewilding Species of the Month: Common Ivy

    Rewilding Species of the Month: Common Ivy

    Ivy is a controversial plant that gets a whole lot of people reaching for the secateurs to butcher the green monster. In the UK, where Common Ivy is a native and therefore non-invasive species, this attitude can be symbolic of humanity’s need for control over nature or it may be symbolic of our misunderstanding of…

  • ‘Twas the Night Before Christmas in the Ghost Woods

    ‘Twas the Night Before Christmas in the Ghost Woods

    ‘Twas the night in a Ghost Wood, when all through the gloom Not a creature was stirring, beneath the cold moon; Pine needles were strewn ‘cross the empty brown floor Where once there were acorns and oh so much more Where rare slugs once nestled all snug in the leaves And visions of bluebells once…

  • Ancient Woodlands and the new England Trees Action Plan

    Ancient Woodlands and the new England Trees Action Plan

    At the end of last month Wild Card’s Ghost Woods team contributed to DEFRA’s consultation on the upcoming England Trees Action Plan.  You can read our submission here.

  • Brits unaware of poor state of nation’s trees, new poll shows, with older voters leading the way in wanting action to protect ancient woods

    A new survey has found that Brits are in the dark about the declining state of nature in England, with almost 9 out of 10 believing that the country has significantly more native ancient woodland than it actually has. Over half the respondents felt anger at discovering the miniscule amount of this historic habitat that…

  • Rewilding Species Of The Month: The Oak

    Rewilding Species Of The Month: The Oak

    Oak trees have always been entwined with human life, building our ships, flavouring our whisky, and structuring our steeples for centuries. Throughout history, the great oak has sheltered both our princes and our paupers and thousands of non-human species too

  • Shakespeare and the Ghost Woods

    Shakespeare and the Ghost Woods

    Finding Shakespeare’s Ghost Woods Whether it be Hamlet’s father, Richard III’s victims, or Banquo and his gory locks, everyone knows Shakespeare’s connection with ghosts. Far far fewer are aware of the connection between Shakespeare and the Ghost Woods. Yet, as our team began to research the sites of ancient woodland smothered beneath conifer plantations, we…

  • An Ode to Mal

    An Ode to Mal

    Amy Webb of The Lost Giants has written this ode to Mal the Lemon Slug. Lemon slugs are ancient woodland indicator species and The Lost Giants created a giant one as the mascot for our Ghost Woods campaign.

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