Woodland
Woodlands are magical places, full of wildlife and full of history. Great spotted woodpeckers, nuthatches and jays flit between trees as butterflies dance in sunny glades. Badgers forage through…
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Woodland creation
Woodlands are one of the most important habitats for wildlife in the UK and Suffolk Wildlife Trust is working hard to ensure that the region's ancient woodlands are protected and sensitively managed. In addition the Trust is supporting landowners and farmers to create new sites that have the potential to sustain a wide range of birds, mammals, invertebrates, reptiles and plant life.
Woodland management
Many of our woods have been in existence since the last ice-age and provide the richest places for wildlife. Most of them have been managed in a careful and sustainable way over the centuries to provide woodland products and fuel. Woods often show signs of traditional management which provided an excellent mixture of trees, shrubs and ground plants for wildlife.
Wet woodland
Wet woodlands in the UK can be wild, secretive places. Tangles of trailing creepers, tussocky sedges and lush tall-herbs conceal swampy pools and partially submerged fallen willow trunks, likely…
Woodland by natural regeneration
Natural regeneration is the best way of creating a new woodland for wildlife and expanding ancient semi natural woodland. Not only is it less expensive than planting up sites, but trees established by regeneration are more likely to be better adapted to local conditions and will result in a more natural composition suited to a variety of wildlife.
Designing a woodland for wildlife
Maddie Lord, Suffolk Wildlife Trust’s Farmland Wildlife Adviser, explores some of the questions that are helpful to bear in mind when considering creating a woodland that’s brilliant for wildlife…
Ancient Woodland under threat
Hintlesham Woods ancient woodland in Suffolk is under threat from a National Grid energy infrastructure project.
SEND Woodland Play at Knettishall Heath
Lauren Mack, our Wild Learning Officer at Knettishall Heath, had a lovely afternoon in the woods on Sunday 13th November, with local neurodiverse families attending our first SEND (special…
Rowley Grove woodland purchase – thank you!
A huge thank you to everyone who has so generously supported the purchase of Rowley Grove, a precious ancient woodland situated on the southern border of Suffolk Wildlife Trust’s Arger Fen &…
Woodlands and hedgerows
Woodlands and hedgerows provide a complex habitat for a wide range of species,
How to make a woodland edge garden for wildlife
Few of us can contemplate having a wood in our back gardens, but just a few metres is enough to establish this mini-habitat!
Woodlark
The secretive woodlark can be hard to spot. It nests on the ground on our southern heathlands and uses scattered trees and woodland edges for lookout posts.