Our UK Future Forests provide the breathing space we all need.
Explore our sites across the UK.
Dumyat
Dumyat is iconic in the Stirlingshire and Clackmannanshire landscape. The 480 ha estate sits at the western end of the Ochils and includes parts of the beautiful Menstrie Glen. Through woodland creation and nature restoration, we aim to turn it into an exemplar of sustainable land management.
The Glenaros Estate
The Glenaros Estate is located on the east coast of Mull in Scotland. The hill ground on the estate provides the potential for creating a beautiful, healthy forest. The 2000 acre estate offers us the capacity to plant up to 1 million trees.
Leadloch
Leadloch is our 155 Ha site in the Central Belt of Scotland. The site consists of degraded peatland, improved grassland, fenland and conifer shelter belts. Our vision is to enhance nature by restoring degraded farmland and landscapes, creating new woodlands, healthy peatland and wildlife-rich habitats.
Brisbane Mains
Brisbane Mains covers 144ha in a mosaic of young and mature woodland, species-rich grasslands and peatland. The site includes the Knock Hill which overlooks the Firth of Clyde and the islands beyond. To date, we have planted more than 200,000 trees as part of our work to sequester more carbon alongside our aims to conserve and enhance the special biodiversity of this site.
Brodoclea
Brodoclea covers 174ha of primarily broadleaved woodland and is home to our woolly pigs; our ecological restoration engineers! The site, through our careful management, currently contributes to fighting climate change and reversing the nature crisis.
Mill of Plunton
Our vision is to transform the 90.57Ha of grazed farmland at our Mill of Plunton site into a mosaic of woodland and wildlife-rich wetlands and grasslands, which will capture and store carbon whilst helping to reverse the current nature crisis. We also want to achieve this by working with traditional farming methods and the local community.
Pleasantfield
Pleasantfield sits in the Ayrshire countryside made famous by Scotland’s most well-known poet, Robert Burns. This 35ha site formerly had woodland over parts of it until at least 1949, when it became predominantly pasture. We will return the land back to a thriving woodland habitat which will marry nature and informal recreational opportunities with the overarching drive to mitigate the effects of climate change.
The Haining
The site extends a little over 10 hectares and is a plantation consisting of larch and spruce trees. The larch has been killed by Ramorum disease which also infects native trees and many other plants. By law we have to fell the larch trees to limit the spread of the disease. The felled areas will be replanted with suitably Ramorum resistant tree species. The rest of the spruce plantation will be converted into a continuous cover forestry system. Our aim is to create a species diverse woodland.
Montgreenan
Montgreenan may be a small site but it packs a lot into its boundaries. Naturally wet, the site has become the home to one of our new woodland schemes, helping to capture carbon whilst also creating one of our more threatened and biodiverse woodland types: wet woodland.
Carston
At our Carston site, over 80,000 predominantly native trees will be planted to create a diverse carbon rich woodland that exceeds UK Forestry Standard expectations. The Woodland will also contain biodiversity enhancements and will marry with the local community woodland, providing recreational and climate change benefits for many years to come.
Swarthghyll
Swarthghyll is our 345.5ha estate in the heart of the Yorkshire Dales where we are restoring a vast area of peatland. We are ditch blocking, hagg reprofiling and re-vegetating bare peat across 50ha of blanket bog. Our work will contribute significantly to the restoration and safeguarding of this ancient natural habitat.
Once we finish planting trees we do the same thing again, and again, and again.
Hundreds of trees become thousands, thousands become millions. Millions of trees will have a significant impact on the climate crisis. This nature based approach is not the only solution to climate change, but it’s real, here now and already making a measurable difference to biodiversity and global C02 levels.
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