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Woodland Trust Scotland
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The Scotland arm of the UK's largest woodland conservation charity. We create, protect & restore native woods & trees for people & wildlife, to combat climate change & build a greener future.
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Thinking about planting trees on your land? Woodland Trust Scotland can help:

🍃 Choosing the right native species
🌱 Planning and planting your woodland
📄 Funding options and grants
🌍 Long-term care for your trees

👉 Free help and advice here! buff.ly/6PmYALv

#NationalTreeWeek
Image of fenced off, newly plated hedgerow in farm landscape. Credit: Sam Brooke/Rhibreck, Edderton, Tain. Image of fenced off, newly plated hedgerow in farm landscape with sheep in distant field. Credit: Sam Brooke/Rhibreck, Edderton, Tain. Image of fenced off, newly plated hedgerow in farm landscape with lambs in boxed pen next to fence. Credit: Sam Brooke/Rhibreck, Edderton, Tain.
November 25, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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Could you be our next North Scotland Site Manager? This is a rare opportunity to care for some truly special woods: from a slice of #ScotlandsRainforest near Oban, to mixed woodland on the shores of Loch Ness, & ancient oakwoods in Sutherland.
More 👉 buff.ly/FXLnDKQ
#NatureJobs #ForestryJobs
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November 25, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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This is the Kissing Beech at Kilvarock Estate nr Inverness. 😚 It's name refers to an incident where a member of the Lord’s family & a housemaid were seen embracing illicitly under its branches. 💕 It's approx 5 metres in girth - a top #ThickTrunkTuesday candidate!
A mature beech tree with spider-like limbs reaching out and layering on the ground. Credit Niall Benvie / WTML A mature beech tree in a woodland. Two men and a young child are standing / sitting by the tree which has moss covered roots. Its trunk is fat and there are scars where branches have been removed. Credit Niall Benvie / WTML
November 25, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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Want to help this wee fella? Make sure you regularly clean your bird feeders, tables and baths. Greenfinches have suffered a major population decline in the UK over the last couple of decades, caused by a disease called Trichomonosis that spreads at feeders.

📸 Lovely shot by George Kelsey.👏
A small green bird perched on a metal bar turns its head towards the camera. Pic by George Kelsey.
November 24, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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🌍 This #NationalTreeWeek, we're looking at how #WoodlandCreation can help achieve a world rich in native woods and trees, for people and wildlife.

📖 No matter the scale or setting, our Woodland Creation guide is here to guide you through the process.

Download a copy today👉 buff.ly/HmqCNCJ
The cover of the guide with an oak tree sapling growing from leaf mulch. Credit WTML A page titled Design Example with the header 'Pepper Wood - site assessment' extracted from the guide. It is a map of a wood and markers on the map. Credit WTML
November 24, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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Happy #NationalTreeWeek! Trees are vital for the survival of wildlife. But humans need trees too. Take a moment to appreciate all the not-so-obvious ways that trees help us 💚
And did you know we give #FreeTrees to schools and communities?
Apply 👉 buff.ly/ImfRtnF 📷 L McGregor & P Formby/WTML
November 22, 2025 at 10:01 AM
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🍂 It's #BookWeekScotland & the dark evenings make it the perfect time to cosy-up with a good book! Looking for inspiration? Take a peek at the #WoodlandTrust shop where we're sure you'll find your next nature read. One title 'Oaklore' is written by our very own staff member Jules ▶️ buff.ly/eztKxHb
Girl sitting on branch reading a book in the woods. The leaves on the ground are brown and autumnal. Credit: Adam Burton/WTML
November 21, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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Live in #EastLothian and love a walk in the woods? 👣

Join us as a #Volunteer warden and help look after Seaton Dean by regularly patrolling the wood, noting interesting wildlife and notifying the Site Manager of any issues.🌳

👉 Find out more: buff.ly/rnZHCFa
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November 21, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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🗣️Trees are vital for a healthy future. Can you help share this message?

💚 We're looking for Volunteer Speakers from #Glasgow and the #WestCoast to help spread the word about the wonders of woodland!

Learn more and apply below 👇

📍 Glasgow buff.ly/LuUDIun
📍 Oban & Argyll buff.ly/lIsjjlk
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November 20, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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Postcards from our Outreach team who were conducting a survey of ancient woodland on Loch Veyatie in #Assynt recently.⛵

Lots of ancient ‘graveyard/bone' tree specimens found including this 'harp' tree (as christened by Doug). Also an encouraging amount of tree regeneration appearing.🤞
A man sits in a small rowing boat in a loch, with a dramatic mountain in the distance. He is wearing a red jacket and holding an ipad. A man in a red jacket stands by an ancient tree. It is bent in half, creating a dramatic 45 degree angle between its trunk and branches. Credit WTML Large bracket fungi grow on a birch tree trunk. In the background is a small boat on a loch with mountains in the distance. Credit WTML.
November 19, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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🌐 Free Webinar - Integrating Trees Network 🌳

🚜 Your Farm's Future: Why and how trees can benefit your business. With ourselves, SRUC and #ScottishForestry

⏱️ Wednesday 26th November, 7-8.15 pm
➡️ Free tickets at buff.ly/C7Lzytm
A field is bordered by hedgerows and mature trees. Credit - Estelle Slegers Helsen / WTML
November 18, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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🌧️ Bit of a rainy one last week but that didn't deter volunteers from #Kinclaven and #Formonthills Wood from mucking in!

🌳 They planted 9️⃣0️⃣ trees and removed x2 bulk bags of old tree guards in one session.

🍰 A+ for effort, rewarded with homemade cake from one of the volunteers - yum!
A woman smiles as she removes an old tree guard from a now tall tree. She is wearing high vis and a dark blue raincoat. A group of 7 adults face the camera in a wood. The are standing behind two large bags of tree tubes, weighed down by fallen branches.
November 18, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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Two lovely Cappadocian maples, Greyfriars Burial Ground, Perth. Home to bats & standing proud, their rambling roots slowly swallowing the gravestones. #ThickTrunkTuesday
The trunk of a maple tree with sprawling roots covering graves. There are no leave remaining on the branches. there are 3 bat boxes and a bird box visible on the tree. Credit WTML. Two maple trees, one on either side of a path through a graveyard. The trees are mature with full crowns. It's late autumn and no leaves are visible on the tree. The light is fading. Credit WTML. Two maple tree trunks,one on either side of a path through a graveyard. The roots of the tree are beginning to topple gravestones. There are man made bat boxes and bird boxes visible on the tree. Credit WTML.
November 18, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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Late autumn Monday mornings be like.......

📸Pic taken in Perthshire by Rosanna Forbes.👏
November 17, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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🌳 There are lots of collective nouns for trees - forest, stand, thicket etc. But what about about bats?

🦇 To celebrate the amazing diversity of Britain’s bats, @batconservation.bsky.social is inviting you to help choose collective nouns for four bat species! 💫

Cast your buff.ly/LjzQULc
A bat flying in mid air with a speech bubble that reads, 'what do you call a group of bats?'
November 17, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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💚 We need volunteers!

🌳 Can you help plant trees later this month?🌳

⏰ Sat 29th Nov, 10am-2pm
🆓 Booking at 👉 buff.ly/ngWMIX5
📍 Knightsridge Wood, #Livingston

📷 Credit John Banks
Three men stand by a large stump. They are holding spades and surrounded by newly planted trees in recycled tree guards.
November 17, 2025 at 9:35 AM
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Currently it's much easier for landowners to benefit from lucrative carbon schemes (such as the Woodland & Peatland Carbon Codes) than it is for tenant #Crofters. The next Scot Gov should change this so that tenant crofters can benefit when they improve their land for nature. #ScotParlElection26
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November 16, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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Two super #RainforestJobs with @asrainforest.bsky.social partners Appin Rainforest Regeneration Project.🌳🥬
1. Volunteer Team Leader 👉 buff.ly/1J4F6VM&
2. Squad Team Member (help to remove invasives) 👉 buff.ly/dKTJLyb
Please share. #SavingScotlandsRainforest #TemperateRainforest
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November 15, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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🍂 Any leaves left?

While you’re out this weekend, look around, are the trees bare yet? 🌳👀

Your sightings can help #NaturesCalendar track how the seasons change across the UK. 🌦️

👉 Visit Nature's Calander buff.ly/9qmEl7e to share what you spot

#CitizenScience #WinterIsComing #BareTrees
November 15, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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Current funding mechanisms aren't working well. The next Scottish Government should help farmers and crofters to integrate more native trees and hedges into their land. 2/2
#MairTreesPlease #ManifestoAsk #ScotParlElection26
November 14, 2025 at 12:11 PM
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Trees on farms & crofts bring many benefits from shade and shelter for livestock, to improved water management helping in times of drought and flood. And from food & fodder to increased yield plus other products like fruit or firewood. 1/2
Sheep grazing in a grassy field alongside a series of fenced tree enclosures and newly planted hedges. Credit WTML.
November 14, 2025 at 12:11 PM
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🍂 Take this moment.......

#MidWeekMeditation #ThursdayThought #NaturesCalling
November 13, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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Gorgeous day at #Backmuir Wood with volunteers from Aviva🍂

The group did a stellar job removing young beech trees, opening up space around regenerating oak and rowan, whilst also allowing more diverse ground flora to come through🍄

Next time you're near #Dundee, have a stroll 👉 🚶‍♂️ buff.ly/VrlomO9
November 13, 2025 at 10:01 AM
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...more shade and shelter, more natural beauty, and improved climate change resilience.
We should start with the highest priority urban areas, where tree cover is currently lowest, using the Woodland Trust's Tree Equity Score tool 👉 buff.ly/YoaAcGf #MairTreesPlease #ManifestoAsk #ScotParlElection26
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November 12, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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Everyone should benefit from trees, no matter where they live. That's called Tree Equity.

The next Scottish Government should recognise the benefits of #TreeEquity and work with communities and local authorities to deliver trees for all, ensuring more people can enjoy better air quality...1/2
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November 12, 2025 at 4:03 PM