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We bring together anyone at the University of Leeds with an interest in forests, trees & green space!

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Restoring Hardknott Forest 🌎 @hardknottforest.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
It was interesting helping @universityofleeds.bsky.social researcher Ben collecting data last week. He's looking at the effect of tree canopy cover on temperature & soil moisture. More in our autumn newsletter. Sign up here: mailchi.mp/fab56d180ac7... @envleeds.bsky.social @leedsleaf.bsky.social
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Restoring Hardknott Forest 🌎 @hardknottforest.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
A lot of people are saying we don't have enough footage of helicopters on our socials. So here's a clip from our recent heli-lift of (local, larch) fence posts. These will keep Harter Fell sheep free & allow montane scrub and wildflowers to thrive. @forestryengland.bsky.social @leedsleaf.bsky.social
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Restoring Hardknott Forest 🌎 @hardknottforest.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
A lot of people are saying we don't have enough short films about juniper on our socials. Here's one which features 1695 of them. All carefully nurtured by staff & volunteers & gradually getting ready to be released into the wild. @leedsleaf.bsky.social @forestryjournal.bsky.social
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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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Restoring Hardknott Forest 🌎 @hardknottforest.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Did you know we're the subject of a feature-length documentary which after two years work is nearly finished? Neil Emery, the filmmaker, tells us all about it in the video below. @envleeds.bsky.social @leedsleaf.bsky.social @forestryengland.bsky.social youtu.be/CgoDqF6t2Nw?...
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I'm Asking for Your Help to Finish My First Feature Documentary
YouTube video by Lake District Films
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Priestley Centre for Climate Futures @priestleycentre.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Restoring nature at scale while supporting farming livelihoods is a critical challenge. Research led by Priestley member Dominick Spracklen sets out a twenty year plan to restore ecosystems in the Lake District, while securing a viable future for fell farming 👉 climate.leeds.ac.uk/news/twenty-...
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Twenty-year plan to restore nature and support fell farming - Priestley Centre for Climate Futures
Work to restore heathland, meadows, woodland, peatlands and rivers in the uplands of South Cumbria has begun in earnest thanks to a new project supported by Defra’s Landscape Recovery Scheme. Work to ...
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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
Joining up with the Meanwood Valley Trail and the Leeds Country Way, walkers on those routes can now pass through Gair Wood and enjoy the developing woodland. Read more about the project and community partnerships 👇 www.leeds.ac.uk/news/article...
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New public route unveiled at Gair Wood
A new public footpath has been unveiled at Gair Wood that links up with the ever-popular Meanwood Valley Trail and Leeds Country Way.
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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 · 14/04/2026
This webinar will be of interest to colleagues working in local authorities, not just in Leeds, Bradford, Wakefield and York, as well as combined authorities and other community forests. Sign up here: 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 · 14/04/2026
As this work is still evolving, attendees will be invited to contribute ideas about what outputs they would like to see from this research and how it can be made useful for them.
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Leeds Ecosystem, Atmosphere, & Forest (LEAF) centre @leedsleaf.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Elle will share her recent research and introduce the next stages: producing tree planting maps for Leeds, Bradford, Wakefield & York. These maps will indicate optimal locations to plant new trees to help meet White Rose Forest canopy cover targets and improve performance at the 3-30-300 principle.
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Leeds Ecosystem, Atmosphere, & Forest (LEAF) centre @leedsleaf.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
The “3-30-300″ guidance, proposed by international urban forestry expert Cecil Konijnendijk, recommends that every house, school, and workplace has a view of 3 trees, that there is 30% canopy cover in each neighbourhood, and that each building has a public greenspace within 300m
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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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Restoring Hardknott Forest 🌎 @hardknottforest.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Cockley Beck farm in the Upper Duddon has one of the best planted areas of woodland we've seen. Really good survival rate. The trees are now ready to come out of their tubes & we're happy to help. @nfudc.bsky.social @cumbriacvs.bsky.social @leedsleaf.bsky.social
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Leeds Ecosystem, Atmosphere, & Forest (LEAF) centre @leedsleaf.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Chopping down areas of tropical rainforest is causing rising temperatures linked to thousands of deaths. @domspracklen.bsky.social explains the science🌳🧪 theconversation.com/chopping-dow...
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Chopping down areas of tropical rainforest is causing rising temperatures linked to thousands of deaths
A single tropical tree can create as much cooling as several air conditioners, and across forests can cool a whole region.
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Edward Pollard @epollard.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
"There's five times as many butterflies on cattle grazing sites compared with sheep grazed sites," @bcyorkshire.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Yorkshire Dales sheep and cattle swap boosts biodiversity - studies
Natural England began switching to cattle grazing at its Ingleborough site in the Dales in 2004.
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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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Restoring Hardknott Forest 🌎 @hardknottforest.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Another successful team up of Upper Duddon Landscape Recovery and @nationaltrust.org.uk staff. 1000 trees planted at Black Hall farm in the north of the valley. Aspen, oak, birch, hazel & willow were added to a couple of existing fenced areas. @lakedistrictnpa.bsky.social @leedsleaf.bsky.social
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Leeds Ecosystem, Atmosphere, & Forest (LEAF) centre @leedsleaf.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
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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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Restoring Hardknott Forest 🌎 @hardknottforest.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
We're currently curating our winter newsletter, out soon. What to expect? A farmer pointing at a post, carcass ecology, new staff start, we're the topic of "Wildwood" a photographic talk. Plus volunteer dates & wildlife videos. Sign up▶️ mailchi.mp/1dd189bd3314...
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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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Tim Baker @kofitim.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Our research with the SECO project to understand the trajectory of the dry tropics depends on a team of wonderful people across the world, working in Peru, Brazil and beyond, in fieldwork, data management and lab analysis. Here are some of their stories: www.leeds.ac.uk/directory-re...
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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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Restoring Hardknott Forest 🌎 @hardknottforest.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
"Trees: from seeds to saplings" was the theme of the last event of 2025 from the Cumbria Biodiversity Data Centre. Really useful knowledge sharing. Next year's events are linked below. @cumbriawildlife.bsky.social @leedsleaf.bsky.social @forestryengland.bsky.social www.cbdc.org.uk/get-involved...
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Quantum Sauce @quantum-sauce.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
- and finally, a lesson in tree translation from Dr Robin Hayward (@canopyrobin.com), of @leedsleaf.bsky.social! How do we best learn from tropical trees, to promote and manage woodland regeneration? Also featuring some scent-sational seasonal stocking fillers…! 🌲 🍊 🌴
Dr Robin Hayward, interpreting what trees are trying to tell us, at our Christmas Quantum Sauce event!Dr Robin Hayward, interpreting what trees are trying to tell us, at our Christmas Quantum Sauce event!Dr Robin Hayward, interpreting what trees are trying to tell us, at our Christmas Quantum Sauce event!A cute little Christmas tree… about to drop needles all over your living room.
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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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Leeds Ecosystem, Atmosphere, & Forest (LEAF) centre @leedsleaf.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Excited to see the Upper Duddon Landscape Recovery project highlighted in this recent blog from @naturalengland.bsky.social. We're working together with partner organisations and local communities to bring landscape recovery benefits, plus new opportunities for nature-based learning and volunteering
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Landscape Recovery and growth: building the foundations for critical nature infrastructure
By Chris Davis, Natural England’s Deputy Director for Landscape Recovery and Schemes Development At a time when the UK is facing serious environmental challenges such as climate change and loss of wil...
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Restoring Hardknott Forest 🌎 @hardknottforest.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
One space left for our last volunteer day of 2025! Please share. @envleeds.bsky.social @leedsleaf.bsky.social @forestryengland.bsky.social www.trybooking.com/uk/FIGS
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Restoring Hardknott Forest Volunteer Day: 14th Dec, 2025
Join us on a volunteer day to help maintain & remove tree tubes, remove non-native conifers, plant trees and wildflowers and allow the natural...
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Leeds Ecosystem, Atmosphere, & Forest (LEAF) centre @leedsleaf.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
If you've been enjoying #NationalTreeWeek as much as we have and don't want the fun to be over, we have good news! For those local to Leeds, @canopyrobin.com will be representing the team with a talk on Christmas tree communication at Quantum Sauce next tuesday! 🎄
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Restoring Hardknott Forest 🌎 @hardknottforest.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
It's #NationalTreeWeek and yesterday we planted 800 trees along the edges of a newly rebuilt bridleway. It'll stablise the work and create a lovely mixed corridor of woodland in years to come. Oak, aspen, alder and grey willow pegs went in. @leedsleaf.bsky.social @forestryengland.bsky.social
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Robin Hayward 🌳 🏳️‍⚧️ @canopyrobin.com · 24/11/2025
Looks like my scything efforts last week paid off to get a few hundred trees planted into our new hedgerow!
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Leeds Ecosystem, Atmosphere, & Forest (LEAF) centre @leedsleaf.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
To find out more about #GairWood and the research and volunteering opportunities on site, check out leaf.leeds.ac.uk/gairwood/
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Gair Wood | Leeds Ecosystem, Atmosphere & Forest (LEAF) Centre
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Dom Spracklen @domspracklen.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Protecting and restoring forests boosts farming and food security. New @fao.org report presented at COP30 brings together recent research including work from @drcarlyreddington.bsky.social @universityofleeds.bsky.social @envleeds.bsky.social @leedsleaf.bsky.social
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Restoring Hardknott Forest 🌎 @hardknottforest.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Decent views in the Duddon valley today. Not a bad day for our contractors felling larch for the project's timber needs. @leedsleaf.bsky.social @envleeds.bsky.social @forestryengland.bsky.social
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Restoring Hardknott Forest 🌎 @hardknottforest.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
At least Tombo and Hazbop have been busy peeling pointing and generally processing our larch into perfect posts. In contrast, local celebrity farmer Paddy seems to think he's done his bit. @leedsleaf.bsky.social @forestryengland.bsky.social
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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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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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Restoring Hardknott Forest 🌎 @hardknottforest.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Voting for this funding closes on Friday. Please share this post and vote for the Alliance for Northern Nature in the WILD PLACES category. Thanks. @forestryengland.bsky.social @nationaltrust.org.uk @earthandenvleeds.bsky.social @leedsleaf.bsky.social @cumbriacvs.bsky.social
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Restoring Hardknott Forest 🌎 @hardknottforest.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
We're up for some funding! Please support our work by voting for us in the WILD PLACES category. Shares much appreciated, as the funding depends on a public vote. @earthandenvleeds.bsky.social @universityofleeds.bsky.social @leedsleaf.bsky.social www.eocaconservation.org/vote/
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Registration | EOCA | Conservation Funding | Conservation Grants
The European Outdoor Conservation Association ( EOCA ) is a group of European outdoor industry businesses who have come together to provide conservation grants for worldwide projects.
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Global Food and Environment Institute @globalfoodleeds.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Can planting hedgerows help prevent flooding? Join us on 10th Dec, 12.00-12.40 to hear from Prof Pippa Chapman & Dr Sofia Biffi. Pippa & Sofia have explored how hedgerows of different ages (from under 5 years to decades old) affect how well soil absorbs and drains water. 👇
Hedgerow lined country road
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Julia Koricheva @juliakoricheva.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
See press release here: www.stir.ac.uk/news/2025/oc...
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Woodland creation strategies reshaped by Stirling-led research | About | University of Stirling
Woodland creation strategies reshaped by Stirling-led research
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Julia Koricheva @juliakoricheva.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
New OA publication from TreE_PlaNat project @uktreescapes.bsky.social in Ecological Solutions and Evidence: Creating woodland through natural processes: Current understanding and knowledge gaps in Great Britain besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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Creating woodland through natural processes: Current understanding and knowledge gaps in Great Britain
Natural colonisation can successfully create structurally diverse, locally adapted woodlands in Britain, but the outcomes of this process can vary considerably. Combining natural colonisation and tre...
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Restoring Hardknott Forest 🌎 @hardknottforest.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Our Autumn newsletter is out tomorrow, with volunteer dates, wildlife sightings, a video of a damp badger and more. You can sign up to get it here: mailchi.mp/1dd189bd3314... @envleeds.bsky.social @leedsleaf.bsky.social @cumbriacvs.bsky.social
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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 · 21/10/2025
PhD opportunity! 🌳🧪🌐🌍
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Leeds Ecosystem, Atmosphere, & Forest (LEAF) centre @leedsleaf.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Green Space, Young People & Climate Justice: Enhancing Access, Adaptation & Wellbeing through Nature-Based Solutions This PhD with Susanne Lorenz and @catzigle.bsky.social will explore urban green infrastructure for wellbeing, climate change adaptation & biodiversity yes-dtn.ac.uk/research/gre...
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Green Space, Young People, and Climate Justice: Enhancing Access, Adaptation and Wellbeing through Nature-Based Solutions - Yorkshire Environmental Sciences • Doctoral Training Network
This PhD project explores how urban green infrastructure—like tree planting and green corridors—can support the development of inclusive biodiverse, and climate-resilient urban environments, through p...
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