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The Winter lecture series at the Architectural Association’s Woodland Campus at Hooke Park, has been announced. I am pleased to be part of the line up this year. I will be talking about woodland culture and the making of The New Sylva on Wednesday 2nd December. Read more about theContinue Reading

Maple Massacre - a repeatedly-flailed field maple (Acer campestre) in an English hedgerow. Lumix GX7, 25mm, f1.4, 1/1000sec, ISO125, -0.7step, tripod.

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I’ve been waiting patiently for the leaves on this field maple to fall after it was flailed again this Summer. The repeated flailing of this hedgerow maple has resulted a fantastic yet sorry form that only shows the resilience of trees to human hand. See more of my tree photosContinue Reading

Gabriel Hemery signing The New Sylva

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With the official publication day just over one week away, the authors have been preparing by signing copies pre-ordered via the online shop of the Sylva Foundation. Continue Reading

Global Forest change Earth view

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Scientists used Earth observation satellite data to map global forest cover discovering that while there had been a gain of 0.8 million square kilometers over twelve recent years (2000-12), almost three times as much forest cover had been lost (2.3 million square kilometers) in the same period.Continue Reading