Science and Research

We’ve created a step-by-step guide for local authorities and their stakeholders to develop and deliver a local tree strategy and harness the long-term benefits that trees can bring to local communities.

We’re exploring ways to rereduce the costs of quality tree establishment through Defra’s Shared Outcomes Fund.

Through our work with Hedgelink and the Life on the Hedge programme, The Tree Council aims to protect and conserve our hedgerows for the future.

Since the arrival of ash dieback, The Tree Council has led research into the early responses and coping strategies of public landowners to this new disease.

We’ve worked with Defra, Forestry Commission and Forest Research to produce a practical toolkit that will equip local authorities and others responsible for managing trees with the information and tools needed to develop local risk-based management approaches for OPM.

Mistletoe is thought to be spreading in the UK, but we don’t know where and why. Exciting new research aims to gather data and forecast the future of this intriguing and important plant.

Since the 1940s, this magnificent 360 year old tree located in the Cambridgeshire cathedral city of Ely, has needed support for its huge limbs. But now, new, innovative cable bracing is required to help it continue to prosper into the future.

Five years ago, Network Rail, The Tree Council, Hadley Wood Rail User Group, and the Hadley Wood Association embarked on a journey of collaboration that is delivering fascinating results, improving ways of working, and sparking new national research.

We are working closely with Fera, Forest Research, Defra, those who own and manage important trees, local authorities, key sector organisations, and a wide range of stakeholders, to gather evidence and insight.