“[a] beautifully produced book that can be enjoyed on several levels. I suspect that most readers will start with Sarah Simblet’s exquisite drawings that grace almost every spread and, with their detailed captions, capture the character of individual trees and convey botanical details with enviable skill.” “The text is aContinue Reading
“[a] beautifully produced book that can be enjoyed on several levels. I suspect that most readers will start with Sarah Simblet’s exquisite drawings that grace almost every spread and, with their detailed captions, capture the character of individual trees and convey botanical details with enviable skill.” “The text is aContinue Reading
“Hemery’s eminently readable text and Simblet’s brilliant drawings show why we should love and respect the world’s trees, and how deep is our debt to them.” Colin Tudge for The Ecologist, 30th May 2014 Read the full reviewContinue Reading
“Sometimes in this shouty world, it is good to come across a book that proclaims its virtues with quiet dignity.” The Sunday Times, 4th May 2014Continue Reading
BBC Wildlife Magazine: Book of the Month “This is a beautiful, useful and inspirational book.” BBC Wildlife Magazine, April 2014Continue Reading
BBC Wildlife Magazine: Book of the Month “This is a beautiful, useful and inspirational book.” BBC Wildlife Magazine, April 2014Continue Reading
“The New Sylva is a fine-looking book, carefully designed, beautifully illustrated and written with intelligence and charm. It is impossible to do justice to the range and breadth of research in this short review, but suffice to say that this thought-provoking book will be both useful and absorbing to forestersContinue Reading
“The New Sylva is a fine-looking book, carefully designed, beautifully illustrated and written with intelligence and charm. It is impossible to do justice to the range and breadth of research in this short review, but suffice to say that this thought-provoking book will be both useful and absorbing to forestersContinue Reading
A visit to the densist is more enjoyable than expected after I leave with a bottle of walnut beer.Continue Reading
“In Scotland, by tying the young shoots with bands of hay, they make the stems grow so very close together, as that it encloseth rabbets in warrens instead of pales: And for this robust use we shall prefer the blackthorn; the extravagant suckers which are apt to rise at distanceContinue Reading
The Independent Panel on Forestry sponsored Forest Research to host a workshop, held on 9 November 2011, to identify the strengths and opportunities of the current research programmes and make recommendations for future research priorities for forestry in England. The workshop was attended by a range of participants from the research,Continue Reading
I’ve been spending some time with entomologists at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History, as the museum is hosting an exhibition of the Sylva Foundation’s OneOak educational project for the next six months. I was lucky enough to be able to handle some wonderful collections of insects of myriadContinue Reading
I attended the conference “European and global forests – which way for the future” 6-7 September 2011, hosted by the the European Parliament Intergroup Climate Change, Biodiversity and Sustainable Development. Here is my summary of some of the important points.Continue Reading
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