Vanessa Burton
@veeburton.bsky.social
Just a human working for woods & trees. Landscape ecologist and conservation adviser at the Woodland Trust. Not a fan of binaries in land or life. Likely to be found running, hiking or biking for ☕ or 🍺 | 🌈
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A lone birch tree getting the backlight treatment on an atmospheric morning in the Caledonian forest.
#scotland #birchtree #betula
#scotland #birchtree #betula
November 17, 2025 at 6:17 PM
A lone birch tree getting the backlight treatment on an atmospheric morning in the Caledonian forest.
#scotland #birchtree #betula
#scotland #birchtree #betula
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📉 Today we published The State of the UK's Woods and Trees Report 2025, bringing together the latest evidence needed to protect and restore our #woodlands 🩺🌳
👉 Read the key findings here: bit.ly/4dNkiYd
👂 Or tune in for our summary on BBC Radio Scotland (starts at 2.54) buff.ly/DwLp7cP
👉 Read the key findings here: bit.ly/4dNkiYd
👂 Or tune in for our summary on BBC Radio Scotland (starts at 2.54) buff.ly/DwLp7cP
June 10, 2025 at 3:05 PM
📉 Today we published The State of the UK's Woods and Trees Report 2025, bringing together the latest evidence needed to protect and restore our #woodlands 🩺🌳
👉 Read the key findings here: bit.ly/4dNkiYd
👂 Or tune in for our summary on BBC Radio Scotland (starts at 2.54) buff.ly/DwLp7cP
👉 Read the key findings here: bit.ly/4dNkiYd
👂 Or tune in for our summary on BBC Radio Scotland (starts at 2.54) buff.ly/DwLp7cP
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“I was running an operating list with 10 people on it and every day at least half were under the age of 11 - it's barbaric.”
Dr Victoria Rose, who has just returned from working in Gaza, tells @cathynewman.bsky.social what it was like.
Read and watch:
www.channel4.com/news/gazan-c...
Dr Victoria Rose, who has just returned from working in Gaza, tells @cathynewman.bsky.social what it was like.
Read and watch:
www.channel4.com/news/gazan-c...
Gazan children in hospital ‘like a conveyor belt’, says surgeon
We spoke to Dr Victoria Rose who's just returned from three and a half weeks working in Gaza.
www.channel4.com
June 5, 2025 at 9:38 AM
“I was running an operating list with 10 people on it and every day at least half were under the age of 11 - it's barbaric.”
Dr Victoria Rose, who has just returned from working in Gaza, tells @cathynewman.bsky.social what it was like.
Read and watch:
www.channel4.com/news/gazan-c...
Dr Victoria Rose, who has just returned from working in Gaza, tells @cathynewman.bsky.social what it was like.
Read and watch:
www.channel4.com/news/gazan-c...
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From 2–8 June, the University of Oxford will be hosting local activities themed around climate justice. Look out for talks, exhibitions, concerts & more.
Join our
Right Here,
Right Now.
www.ox.ac.uk/news-and-eve...
Join our
Right Here,
Right Now.
www.ox.ac.uk/news-and-eve...
Right Here, Right Now | University of Oxford
www.ox.ac.uk
June 2, 2025 at 10:18 AM
From 2–8 June, the University of Oxford will be hosting local activities themed around climate justice. Look out for talks, exhibitions, concerts & more.
Join our
Right Here,
Right Now.
www.ox.ac.uk/news-and-eve...
Join our
Right Here,
Right Now.
www.ox.ac.uk/news-and-eve...
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Life at the (h)edge—Multidiversity in shrub ecotones is driven by habitat quality & shrub foliage cover 🌱🌏
To maximise biodiversity benefits across taxa, recommends managing shrub ecotones at the landscape scale, maintaining a mosaic of open & half-open shrub ecotones 📈🧪
🔗 doi.org/10.1111/1365...
To maximise biodiversity benefits across taxa, recommends managing shrub ecotones at the landscape scale, maintaining a mosaic of open & half-open shrub ecotones 📈🧪
🔗 doi.org/10.1111/1365...
May 30, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Life at the (h)edge—Multidiversity in shrub ecotones is driven by habitat quality & shrub foliage cover 🌱🌏
To maximise biodiversity benefits across taxa, recommends managing shrub ecotones at the landscape scale, maintaining a mosaic of open & half-open shrub ecotones 📈🧪
🔗 doi.org/10.1111/1365...
To maximise biodiversity benefits across taxa, recommends managing shrub ecotones at the landscape scale, maintaining a mosaic of open & half-open shrub ecotones 📈🧪
🔗 doi.org/10.1111/1365...
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This is such a beautiful video from Oslo Pride on how important it is to visibly be an LGBT+ ally. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVep...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVep...
TRYGG - Oslo Pride 2025
YouTube video by Oslo Pride
www.youtube.com
May 29, 2025 at 3:25 PM
This is such a beautiful video from Oslo Pride on how important it is to visibly be an LGBT+ ally. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVep...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVep...
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*PLEASE HELP*
Despite it being the most objected to planning application in Scottish history, the #FlamingoLand/Lomond Banks planning proposal won't go away.
Experts say it would be bad for ancient woodland, bad for flooding & bad for many other reasons. But the developer is persistent. 1/3
Despite it being the most objected to planning application in Scottish history, the #FlamingoLand/Lomond Banks planning proposal won't go away.
Experts say it would be bad for ancient woodland, bad for flooding & bad for many other reasons. But the developer is persistent. 1/3
May 27, 2025 at 4:01 PM
*PLEASE HELP*
Despite it being the most objected to planning application in Scottish history, the #FlamingoLand/Lomond Banks planning proposal won't go away.
Experts say it would be bad for ancient woodland, bad for flooding & bad for many other reasons. But the developer is persistent. 1/3
Despite it being the most objected to planning application in Scottish history, the #FlamingoLand/Lomond Banks planning proposal won't go away.
Experts say it would be bad for ancient woodland, bad for flooding & bad for many other reasons. But the developer is persistent. 1/3
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The Greens now have nearly 200 more councillors than Reform.
This is not something you'd be likely to guess from all the copiously salivating media coverage of Farage & his crew of billionaire-backed far-right chancers.
This is not something you'd be likely to guess from all the copiously salivating media coverage of Farage & his crew of billionaire-backed far-right chancers.
Another record year for the Green Party 👏
859 Councillors on 170 Councils in England & Wales
Now join us to keep Greens growing and to take the fight to Reform join.greenparty.org.uk
859 Councillors on 170 Councils in England & Wales
Now join us to keep Greens growing and to take the fight to Reform join.greenparty.org.uk
May 2, 2025 at 10:58 PM
The Greens now have nearly 200 more councillors than Reform.
This is not something you'd be likely to guess from all the copiously salivating media coverage of Farage & his crew of billionaire-backed far-right chancers.
This is not something you'd be likely to guess from all the copiously salivating media coverage of Farage & his crew of billionaire-backed far-right chancers.
We've explored this in the TreE PlaNat research project www.wren-project.com/tree-planat.... - look out for upcoming resources out in May:
❔ FAQs on natural processes and hybrid approaches
🌱 Simple guidance on monitoring natural processes
📢 A research policy briefing summarising key messages
❔ FAQs on natural processes and hybrid approaches
🌱 Simple guidance on monitoring natural processes
📢 A research policy briefing summarising key messages
April 28, 2025 at 11:32 AM
We've explored this in the TreE PlaNat research project www.wren-project.com/tree-planat.... - look out for upcoming resources out in May:
❔ FAQs on natural processes and hybrid approaches
🌱 Simple guidance on monitoring natural processes
📢 A research policy briefing summarising key messages
❔ FAQs on natural processes and hybrid approaches
🌱 Simple guidance on monitoring natural processes
📢 A research policy briefing summarising key messages
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📢 Calling Community Tree Nurseries 📢
New handbook to help identify, collect and store 30+ native tree & shrub species across the UK. A superb tool for #SeedCollectors and woodland restoration enthusiasts. Created by the Woodland Trust in partnership with Fellowship of the Trees. buff.ly/sozbufZ
New handbook to help identify, collect and store 30+ native tree & shrub species across the UK. A superb tool for #SeedCollectors and woodland restoration enthusiasts. Created by the Woodland Trust in partnership with Fellowship of the Trees. buff.ly/sozbufZ
April 2, 2025 at 10:00 AM
📢 Calling Community Tree Nurseries 📢
New handbook to help identify, collect and store 30+ native tree & shrub species across the UK. A superb tool for #SeedCollectors and woodland restoration enthusiasts. Created by the Woodland Trust in partnership with Fellowship of the Trees. buff.ly/sozbufZ
New handbook to help identify, collect and store 30+ native tree & shrub species across the UK. A superb tool for #SeedCollectors and woodland restoration enthusiasts. Created by the Woodland Trust in partnership with Fellowship of the Trees. buff.ly/sozbufZ
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Yew artichoke gall caused by a fly Taxomyia taxi #WildWebsWednesday
April 2, 2025 at 7:34 AM
Yew artichoke gall caused by a fly Taxomyia taxi #WildWebsWednesday
Seeking fluffy guards in the name of science
April 1, 2025 at 8:07 AM
Seeking fluffy guards in the name of science
Seed collection is vital for ecosystem restoration.
This new guide aids ID and collection for over 30 native tree & shrub species so we can:
🧬 Capture and preserve genetic diversity
🌱 Fill gaps in tree supply
🌳 Meet vital woodland creation targets
fellowshipofthetrees.org/growing-dive...
This new guide aids ID and collection for over 30 native tree & shrub species so we can:
🧬 Capture and preserve genetic diversity
🌱 Fill gaps in tree supply
🌳 Meet vital woodland creation targets
fellowshipofthetrees.org/growing-dive...
March 28, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Seed collection is vital for ecosystem restoration.
This new guide aids ID and collection for over 30 native tree & shrub species so we can:
🧬 Capture and preserve genetic diversity
🌱 Fill gaps in tree supply
🌳 Meet vital woodland creation targets
fellowshipofthetrees.org/growing-dive...
This new guide aids ID and collection for over 30 native tree & shrub species so we can:
🧬 Capture and preserve genetic diversity
🌱 Fill gaps in tree supply
🌳 Meet vital woodland creation targets
fellowshipofthetrees.org/growing-dive...
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Just a reminder to anyone reading this PR piece - true wild camping is covered under access rights in Scotland and does not require paying a membership fee or any fee to landowners. Official government advice on where/how to wild camp responsibly here:
www.outdooraccess-scotland.scot/doc/camping-...
www.outdooraccess-scotland.scot/doc/camping-...
March 11, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Just a reminder to anyone reading this PR piece - true wild camping is covered under access rights in Scotland and does not require paying a membership fee or any fee to landowners. Official government advice on where/how to wild camp responsibly here:
www.outdooraccess-scotland.scot/doc/camping-...
www.outdooraccess-scotland.scot/doc/camping-...
Too often woods for conservation and woods for timber are at loggerheads (sorry).
This project shows this doesn't need to be the case!
www.gov.uk/government/c...
This project shows this doesn't need to be the case!
www.gov.uk/government/c...
Dartmoor’s Future Forests: The Woodland Trust explores how developing the local wood economy can support woodland management
The Woodland Trust used the Woods into Management Forestry Innovation Fund to explore how developing the local wood economy can support woodland management.
www.gov.uk
March 10, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Too often woods for conservation and woods for timber are at loggerheads (sorry).
This project shows this doesn't need to be the case!
www.gov.uk/government/c...
This project shows this doesn't need to be the case!
www.gov.uk/government/c...
The Millennium Seed Bank is home to 13% of the worlds plants in seed form 🌍🌿😯
March 6, 2025 at 11:57 AM
The Millennium Seed Bank is home to 13% of the worlds plants in seed form 🌍🌿😯
Supporting people and ecological restoration in a oner? Yes please... www.inkl.com/news/superla...
‘Superlarder’ to supply wild Scottish venison to food banks
IT’S a neat solution to two pressing problems: getting free, lean, healthy meat to food bank users, and at the same time cutting the vast herds of…
www.inkl.com
February 21, 2025 at 9:49 AM
Supporting people and ecological restoration in a oner? Yes please... www.inkl.com/news/superla...
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🏡The shortage of affordable, accessible homes across Scotland's west coast is impacting our ability to expand & protect precious temperate rainforest.
👱♀️ You can help influence that.
👉 https://buff.ly/4b28rnK
📆 Closing date: 26 Feb 2025 @asrainforest.bsky.social @communitylandsc.bsky.social
👱♀️ You can help influence that.
👉 https://buff.ly/4b28rnK
📆 Closing date: 26 Feb 2025 @asrainforest.bsky.social @communitylandsc.bsky.social
February 12, 2025 at 3:01 PM
🏡The shortage of affordable, accessible homes across Scotland's west coast is impacting our ability to expand & protect precious temperate rainforest.
👱♀️ You can help influence that.
👉 https://buff.ly/4b28rnK
📆 Closing date: 26 Feb 2025 @asrainforest.bsky.social @communitylandsc.bsky.social
👱♀️ You can help influence that.
👉 https://buff.ly/4b28rnK
📆 Closing date: 26 Feb 2025 @asrainforest.bsky.social @communitylandsc.bsky.social
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We have teamed up with three other landowners at #LochArkaig to reawaken the landscape across an area of Lochaber that is larger than Edinburgh. The founding members of Beò Airceig are Achnacarry Estate, Arkaig Community Forest, Forestry and Land Scotland and Woodland Trust Scotland.🧵 1/4
February 10, 2025 at 8:55 AM
We have teamed up with three other landowners at #LochArkaig to reawaken the landscape across an area of Lochaber that is larger than Edinburgh. The founding members of Beò Airceig are Achnacarry Estate, Arkaig Community Forest, Forestry and Land Scotland and Woodland Trust Scotland.🧵 1/4
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🌳📢 New report out! Discover key principles & evidence on how woodland management & creation can boost biodiversity 🌿🐦 Read more! #Nature #Woodlands #Biodiversity
www.forestresearch.gov.uk/news/143260-...
www.forestresearch.gov.uk/news/143260-...
New report reviews management and creation of woodland for biodiversity and wider environmental benefits - Forest Research
Forest Research has published a new report which summarises the current evidence on how woodland management and creation affects biodiversity, ecosystem resilience and key environmental benefits.
www.forestresearch.gov.uk
January 31, 2025 at 10:31 AM
🌳📢 New report out! Discover key principles & evidence on how woodland management & creation can boost biodiversity 🌿🐦 Read more! #Nature #Woodlands #Biodiversity
www.forestresearch.gov.uk/news/143260-...
www.forestresearch.gov.uk/news/143260-...
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Great to be a #RewildingWin! We're chuffed to bits that what was only a dream back in 2017 is now coming to life. Partnership working works!
More buff.ly/3WGFGqt
More buff.ly/3WGFGqt
#RewildingWin 3: 30,000ha to be restored by a community group and partners at Loch Arkaig, an area steeped in history and now on the path to becoming a flourishing landscape for people and wildlife. (4/7)
January 31, 2025 at 9:18 AM
Great to be a #RewildingWin! We're chuffed to bits that what was only a dream back in 2017 is now coming to life. Partnership working works!
More buff.ly/3WGFGqt
More buff.ly/3WGFGqt
I'd quite like Rachel Reeves to experience this but with a few hundred copies of 'Prosperity without Growth'
January 30, 2025 at 2:30 PM
I'd quite like Rachel Reeves to experience this but with a few hundred copies of 'Prosperity without Growth'
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The underlying causes of biodiversity loss are:
1) the disconnection of people from nature & domination over nature & other people
2) the inequitable concentration of power & wealth
3) the prioritization of short-term individual & material gains
#TransformationTuesday @ipbes.bsky.social
1) the disconnection of people from nature & domination over nature & other people
2) the inequitable concentration of power & wealth
3) the prioritization of short-term individual & material gains
#TransformationTuesday @ipbes.bsky.social
January 28, 2025 at 2:33 PM
The underlying causes of biodiversity loss are:
1) the disconnection of people from nature & domination over nature & other people
2) the inequitable concentration of power & wealth
3) the prioritization of short-term individual & material gains
#TransformationTuesday @ipbes.bsky.social
1) the disconnection of people from nature & domination over nature & other people
2) the inequitable concentration of power & wealth
3) the prioritization of short-term individual & material gains
#TransformationTuesday @ipbes.bsky.social
Help us find more wee trees! www.woodlandtrust.org.uk/press-centre...
Secret seed sources sought for Scotland’s wee trees - Woodland Trusticon/search
www.woodlandtrust.org.uk
January 28, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Help us find more wee trees! www.woodlandtrust.org.uk/press-centre...