In an area of Ireland hit hard by the Troubles, townspeople are fighting what they say is a new wave of colonialism: tree ...

Vicky Allan takes a tour round the sawmill near Lockerbie taking spruce logs and making construction timber and finds it is a lesson in ...

Stobo Hope forest plantation has been the subject of not one but two judicial reviews. So why is planting trees so troubled and contentious?

Torgarve forest was taken into community ownership in 2021 but is now the site of a four-year project to improve biodiversity ...

Planting for a 700-hectare predominantly Sitka spruce forest at Stobo Hope, near Peebles, has been on hold since September. Scottish Forestry had taken enforcement action amid warnings from a ...

The forest is home to a high proportion of Sitka spruce, used for the timber trade A forest sitting on land home to a ...