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Cat Scott

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Associate Professor of Biosphere-Climate Interactions at University of Leeds; Director @leedsleaf.bsky.social; working on the interactions between trees and climate 🌳 (she/her) environment.leeds.ac.uk/see/staff/1…

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Robin Hayward 🌳 🏳️‍⚧️ @canopyrobin.com · 25/09/2026
We're publishing new guidance to support trans people who do fieldwork (any work outside the office)! Now we need your help to get them seen so please share! inclusivefieldwork.leeds.ac.uk/trans/
a cartoon of three fieldworkers. One has a small trans flag. The logos of the university of leeds, research england, and canopy robin are shown, as well as the URL: InclusiveFieldwork (dot) Leeds (dot) AC (dot) UK (slash) trans
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Leeds Ecosystem, Atmosphere, & Forest (LEAF) centre @leedsleaf.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Looking to get outside in Leeds and enjoy some nature? Check out the new Greenery Trail @treeswithhazel.bsky.social created for #CampusReimagined at University of Leeds! leaf.leeds.ac.uk/news/a-new-g...
A large new sign with a map of campus on it, decorated with pictures of campus animals. The sign is wrapped with a purple ribbon, has a sloping roof to shelter it from rain, and includes logs in the base to act as pollinator hotels
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Carly Reddington @drcarlyreddington.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
The *Air Quality Stripes* are in Vienna for #EGU26! Come to here more about the project this morning: meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU26/EGU26-... And check out the stripes here: airqualitystripes.info @jimmcquaid.bsky.social @kirstypringle.bsky.social @sturnock.bsky.social
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Carly Reddington @drcarlyreddington.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Ben Bradley’s poster bringing in the crowds at #EGU26! Interested in #fire emissions?! Come check it out meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU26/EGU26-...
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Robin Hayward 🌳 🏳️‍⚧️ @canopyrobin.com · 15/04/2026
Exciting news! We've opened a new path at the woodland we planted in 2023 🎉 As the trees grow, we're studying the way that woodland ecosystems, biochemisty, soils, acoustic environments etc. develop. Plus, more established trees means more resilience to disturbance, so more public access! 🌳💚
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Leeds Ecosystem, Atmosphere, & Forest (LEAF) centre @leedsleaf.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Our research woodland has just opened a new public pathway! We're excited to open this first new path along the edge of our growing woodland, as well as adding a new sign to help visitors understand some of the research we're doing at #GairWood 🧪🌍🌳
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University of Leeds @universityofleeds.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
A new public footpath has opened at Gair Wood in North Leeds, connecting with two popular routes, helping visitors avoid walking alongside busy roads 🌳👣 More than 60k trees were planted there three years ago to enhance the local environment and provide a valuable resource for research and teaching.
Wooden post outside Gair Wood near King Lane with the symbols marking walking routes and arrows for the Leeds Country Way and the Meanwood Valley Trail
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Leeds Ecosystem, Atmosphere, & Forest (LEAF) centre @leedsleaf.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
🌳Free Webinar Alert!🌳 We're excited to join the Improving Access To Trees webinar next week (April 22nd) from White Rose Forest x Green Streets, where @ellesmith.bsky.social, will present recent findings and upcoming research. 🧪🌍🌐 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/white-rose...
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White Rose Forest x Green Streets® webinar: Improving access to trees
Explore new research on urban tree access and help shape future 3-30-300 tree‑planting maps for Leeds, Bradford, Wakefield and York.
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Leeds Ecosystem, Atmosphere, & Forest (LEAF) centre @leedsleaf.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
The University of Leeds and the National Institute for Space Research (INPE) are currently hosting an international Workshop on forest fires, smoke and air quality in Brazil! More info here:
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International workshop on forest fires, smoke and air quality in Brazil | Leeds Ecosystem, Atmosphere & Forest (LEAF) Centre
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cescadarvill.bsky.social @cescadarvill.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
The Research summary posted today in The Applied Ecologist! appliedecologistsblog.com/2026/02/19/p... @aer-ese-bes.bsky.social #woodlandcreation #woodlandtrust #naturerecovery #soilcarbon
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Planting Trees to Avoid Losing Soil Carbon: Insights from Snaizeholme Valley, Yorkshire Dales
Darvill et al. share their experience investigating soil organic carbon stocks in a new native woodland in the Yorkshire Dales, UK, highlighting the importance of careful woodland design. Targeting…
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cescadarvill.bsky.social @cescadarvill.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
(1/4) Our new study in @aer-ese-bes.bsky.social shows that well designed upland #woodlandcreation can avoid high #soilcarbon soils, a key aim of the #WoodlandTrust woodland creation guide principles and UKFS guidance. dx.doi.org/10.1002/2688...
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Woodland creation scheme in the Yorkshire Dales successfully focuses tree planting on soils with lower soil organic carbon stocks
Careful woodland design can avoid planting on high-carbon soils. In the Yorkshire Dales, tree planting targeted lower SOC areas, showing new guidelines and standards help protect soil carbon in uplan....
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Restoring Hardknott Forest 🌎 @hardknottforest.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
If you fancy a bit of non-native tree removal, tree & wildflower planting, or tree tube removal use the link below to book onto a day. Or get in touch for more info: j.h.hodgson@leeds.ac.uk @naturalengland.bsky.social @earthandenvleeds.bsky.social bag.leeds.ac.uk/projects/res...
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Leeds Ecosystem, Atmosphere, & Forest (LEAF) centre @leedsleaf.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
This week we're excitedly preparing for LEAF Day 2026 - our one day annual meeting for folks interested in trees and woodlands! If you're based at the Uni of Leeds, are free on Friday, and that sounds like you, then check out the programme and register at leaf.leeds.ac.uk/events/leaf-...
Decorative LEAF Day 2026 logo
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Leeds Ecosystem, Atmosphere, & Forest (LEAF) centre @leedsleaf.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
A new study from @ellesmith.bsky.social highlights consistently low levels of access to trees and greenspaces across English cities. Read more about it here: leaf.leeds.ac.uk/news/english... .🌐🌍🧪
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Cat Scott @catzigle.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Very pleased to share the first paper from @lemonyue.bsky.social's PhD project! Yue used #UKESM to explore the climate impact of recent aerosol emission reductions in #China 🏭💻🌏
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Leeds Ecosystem, Atmosphere, & Forest (LEAF) centre @leedsleaf.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
This #NationalTreeWeek we're celebrating all the research and practical conservation and restoration work that's done across our group. For example, a massive thankyou to our regular Friends of #GairWood group for their hard work planting a new hedge at our research woodland over the weekend!
Volunteers in wet weather gear, planting seedlings under a vivid rainbow
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Andrew Hacket-Pain @andrewhacket-pain.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
University of Birmingham, UK, are advertising a permanant position (Assistant or Associate Professor) in *Forests under Global Change*. A wide net has been cast - ecology, physiology, modelling, remote sensing, functioning, biodiversity, management... 🌲🌱🌳🌳🦌🌳🛰️🐿️🌲🔬🌳 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPS459/a...
Seedling growing in the forest
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Cat Scott @catzigle.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Applications now open! 💻
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Quantum Sauce @quantum-sauce.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
🎄Is your #Christmas tree talking to you - and if it was, would you want to know?! Translating the bio-signs of your festive fir, ecologist @canopyrobin.com brings a Quantum Qristmas to #Farsley @oldwoollen.bsky.social! 2nd Dec, tickets at tinyurl.com/ye5dwtm5 🧠 Bring your brain & pull up a pint! 🍻
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Carly Reddington @drcarlyreddington.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
🌍 New Toolkit Alert!
 Tropical #deforestation is heating up local climates - with serious risks for #health, agriculture, and climate resilience 🌳🌡️ 🔗 cemac.github.io/deforest-web/map.html @envleeds.bsky.social @priestleycentre.bsky.social @metoffice.gov.uk @domspracklen.bsky.social
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Priestley Centre for Climate Futures @priestleycentre.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
Deforestation is leading to temperature increases of up to 5°C in some tropical regions, according to data revealed in a new interactive map Released just before #COP30, the map uses the work of Priestley members @drcarlyreddington.bsky.social & Dominick Spracklen climate.leeds.ac.uk/news/ahead-o...
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Ahead of COP30, online map shows deforestation is linked to tropical temperature rises - Priestley Centre for Climate Futures
Deforestation is leading to temperature increases of up to 5°C in some tropical regions, according to data revealed in a new interactive map created by researchers at the University of Leeds. The onli...
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Cat Scott @catzigle.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
📢 PhD opportunity! 📢 Join me, @ejduncan.bsky.social, Tom Sloan + the wider #GairWood team to investigate climate-resilient woodlands in the UK 🌳 with @yes-dtn.bsky.social @earthandenvleeds.bsky.social @leedsleaf.bsky.social
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Leeds Ecosystem, Atmosphere, & Forest (LEAF) centre @leedsleaf.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Fancy doing a PhTree? Here's a thread of some fantastic PhD opportunities advertising right now to research trees and forests! 🧵🌍🌐🧪🌳
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Cat Scott @catzigle.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
New study from @treeswithhazel.bsky.social! Increasing UK woodland area from 13% to 19% will likely increase biogenic emissions but by avoiding exclusive planting of the very highest emitters, we can ensure that new woodlands deliver for climate + nature, whilst minimising impacts on air quality ⬇️
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Simon Evans @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org · 07/10/2025
FACTCHECK: What the Climate Change Act actually means for the UK – and what is a load of old nonsense Really enjoyed putting this together with colleagues, inc learning new things about the fascinating backstory to the Act Feat. OG authors of the Act & more www.carbonbrief.org/factcheck-wh...
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Hazel Mooney @treeswithhazel.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
I’m really excited to say the first paper of my PhD has been published in Biogeociences today! The paper examines the impact of net-zero aligned afforestation in the UK on biogenic emissions. 🌳 bg.copernicus.org/articles/22/...
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Future forests: estimating biogenic emissions from net-zero aligned afforestation pathways in the UK
Abstract. Woodlands sequester carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, which could help mitigate climate change. As part of efforts to reach net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by the year 2050, the UK's Cli...
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Dom Spracklen @domspracklen.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
The Amazon forest plays a critical role in the water cycle. A new study shows recent deforestation has caused reduced dry season rainfall across the southern Amazon. New story from @mongabay.com news.mongabay.com/2025/09/more...
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More deforestation leads to a drier dry season, Amazon study finds
In Brazil’s southern Amazonian region, where the notorious “arc of deforestation” has been expanding since the 1970s, forest loss is reshaping the region’s atmospheric water cycle. As the Amazon Rainf...
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Cat Scott @catzigle.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
It was an honour to be at the launch of the Ingleborough NNR into the King's Series of NNRs earlier this month - check out the blog below for more on what the #WildIngleborough partnership has achieved since forming in 2021 🌳🦋🐦
A sign in the foreground indicates that Ingleborough National Nature Reserve became part of the King's Series of NNRs in September 2025. The peak of Ingleborough mountain is visible in the background.
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Yorkshire Wildlife Trust @yorkswildlife.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
Ingleborough just got wilder! 🌿 Now the size of 2.2 billion Yorkshire Tea bags—brewing a brighter future for nature! www.gov.uk/government/news/yorkshires-natural-beauty-recognised-as-ingleborough-nnr-expands #WildIngleborough #NNR
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Dom Spracklen @domspracklen.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
Ingleborough National Nature Reserve expanded - great news for the UK's best limestone habitats and wildlife. Research and monitoring by @universityofleeds.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Ingleborough National Nature Reserve to be extended
The extension will offer greater protection to the rare species found in the Dales upland landscape.
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School of Earth & Environment, University of Leeds @earthandenvleeds.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
Dr Carly Reddington and Professor Dominick Spracklen (both Earth and Environment) co-authored a study showing that deforestation-induced heat has caused over 500,000 deaths in the tropics over the past 20 years.
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Why deforestation is causing heat deaths to soar
Forest loss in tropical regions is causing temperatures to rise, with serious health impacts for indigenous communities
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Carly Reddington @drcarlyreddington.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
🌍 Our new study in @natclimate.nature.com shows tropical #deforestation may cause ~28,000 heat-related deaths/year. 🌳🌡️💻🛰️ Using satellite data & mortality models we quantified the impact of deforestation-driven local warming on human health in the tropics. 
🔗 doi.org/10.1038/s415... 🔗 rdcu.be/eEUbI
Deforestation in a SE Asian tropical forest. Photo credit: Carly Reddington
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Dom Spracklen @domspracklen.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
New study led by @drcarlyreddington.bsky.social tracks climate heating and human health impacts of tropical deforestation @universityofleeds.bsky.social @leedsleaf.bsky.social @universityofleeds.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Tropical deforestation is associated with considerable heat-related mortality - Nature Climate Change
The authors assess the impacts of tropical deforestation and its subsequent local warming on human heat-related mortality. They estimate that deforestation-related warming (+0.27 °C) is associated wit...
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Dom Spracklen @domspracklen.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
Tropical deforestation is a major public health issue. New study led by @drcarlyreddington.bsky.social, story by @jonathan-watts.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Deforestation has killed half a million people in past 20 years, study finds
Localised rises in temperature caused by land clearance cause 28,330 heat-related deaths a year, researchers find
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Stop Funding Heat @stopfundingheat.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
So the UK Met Office is inviting people to suggest up to 5 names for storms. And apparently lots of people have been suggesting "Storm Bigoil", along with BP, Equinor, Exxon & Shell... This is obviously appalling & definitely not to be emulated via this link: www.metoffice.gov.uk/forms/name-o...
Screenshot of form on the UK Met Office website. Text reads: "You can provide up to 5 storm names in the boxes below.

Storm Name: [a user has filled this in with "BigOil"]

Storm Name (optional): [filled in with BP]

Storm Name (optional): [filled in with Equinor]

Storm Name (optional): [filled in with Exxon]

Storm Name (optional): [filled in with Shell]
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Cat Scott @catzigle.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
With millions of pounds being invested in woodland creation every year across the UK, we need to ensure that trees planted really do turn into woodlands established 🌱➡️🌳
A brimstone butterfly flies towards a young tree planted at Gair Wood. The leaves of the tree are emerging from it's protective tree guard.
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Leeds Ecosystem, Atmosphere, & Forest (LEAF) centre @leedsleaf.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
"My motivation kind of grew with the trees" Volunteers at our #GairWood research and woodland creation site contributed to this new document on the experiences and motivations for volunteering in British woodlands, created by @forestresearchuk.bsky.social
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In Brief: 'My motivation kind of grew with the trees' – experiences of woodland volunteers in Great Britain - Forest Research
This In Brief explores experiences of woodland volunteers in Great Britain, showing how people might be supported to volunteer.
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Dr Kim Ward @kimjward.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Please share our #rewilding survey with ecologists, land manager and archeologists.
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University of Leeds @universityofleeds.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Thinking about studying at Leeds? Join us for our Open Day on Friday 13 and Saturday 14 June to: 🎓 Find out more about your course 💬 Speak to staff and students 🏛️ Get a feel for campus life Book your place 👇 bit.ly/43crDNj
A student ambassador engaging in conversation with four people on campus. The student ambassador holds leaflets and is gesturing with their hands. Trees and the university's multi-storey car park can be seen in the background.
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Climate Science Breakthrough @climatescibreak.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
US climate scientists need all the help they can get. Including from foul-mouthed comedians! 🤡😱😱 Watch Emmy Award-Winning David Cross team up with Prof Michael Oppenheimer in the US launch of the hit series "Climate Science Translated". #climate #arresteddevelopment #climatescience
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SafeNet Project @safenet-eu.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
🌳🌲🐾 #SafeNet is officially launched! We are working to #safeguard #biodiversity and #carbon-rich #forest #networks across Europe. Meet the project, explore the science, and see how we are collaborating for resilient forests: 🔗 safenet-project.eu 🔗 bit.ly/SafeNet-Launch @luke.fi #BiodiversityWeek
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Leeds Ecosystem, Atmosphere, & Forest (LEAF) centre @leedsleaf.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Last couple of days to apply for this exciting new role with us! Please share!
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environmentjob @environmentjob.co.uk · 25/04/2025
environmentjob.co.uk
Nature Recovery Project Manager
University of Leeds, Leeds, West Yorkshire / Hybrid, £39,355 - £46,735 pa depending on experience
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Cat Scott @catzigle.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
One week left to apply for our new Nature Recovery Project Manager role, based in @earthandenvleeds.bsky.social - see below for more details:
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Chris Packham @chrisgpackham.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
2025: setting all the worst records 🔥
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Cat Scott @catzigle.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
At #EGU25 this week and interested in the wider impacts of afforestation? Check out @treeswithhazel.bsky.social's talk on potential BVOC emissions from expanded UK forests in session BG3.2 today! 🌲🌳🧪💻
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Hazel Mooney @treeswithhazel.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
I’m at #EGU25. Come along to my talk on Wednesday in Biogeosciences session BG3.2 land use and land cover change to hear about afforestation in the UK and future emissions of BVOCs 🌳 More info here meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU25/EGU25-...
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Carly Reddington @drcarlyreddington.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Good morning #EGU25! For anyone interested in #tropical #deforestation and/or #climate & heat-related #health impacts - come to (the very hard to find!) PICO Spot 2 for the morning session (it's in the purple hall X2, downstairs 😄) 🌴🌳🥵🌡️
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Restoring Hardknott Forest 🌎 @hardknottforest.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Cumbria Woodlands are running a great, free event at Hardknott Forest. Learn more about temperate #rainforests and how we're creating more of it. @leedsleaf.bsky.social @envleeds.bsky.social www.trybooking.com/uk/events/la...
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Restoring the Temperate Rainforest at Hardknott
Join Angus Walsh (Cumbria Woodlands rainforest lead) and John Hodgson (Project Officer for Restoring Hardknott Forest) for a walk to discover...
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