Resources

This page contains links to best practice, advice, and legislation relevant to habitat generation and management; it will be updated as advice and legislation changes.

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Agricultural land Use and Nature Friendly Farming – The RSPB

Using natural colonisation for the creation of new woodland (publishing.service.gov.uk)

Managing-ash-dieback-Vol-2.pdf (rfs.org.uk)

TreeAlert – Forest Research 

Adapting forest and woodland management to the changing climate (forestresearch.gov.uk)

Climate change factsheet: Climate change adaptation (forestresearch.gov.uk)

Habitats | The Wildlife Trusts

Lowland wetland habitat descriptions: UK Terrestrial & Freshwater Habitat Types (jncc.gov.uk)

Magnificent Meadows

How to create a wildflower meadow – Natural England (blog.gov.uk)

Types of Woodland Habitats – Woodland Trust

Tree-Council-Ash-dieback-tree-owners-guide-FINAL.pdf (treecouncil.org.uk)

Hedgerows – The Tree Council

Woodland Wildlife Toolkit (sylva.org.uk)

Wales Biodiversity Partnership – Home (biodiversitywales.org.uk)

ukhab – UK Habitat Classification

RSPB www.rspb.org.uk

Montgomeryshire Wildlife Trust home | Montgomeryshire Wildlife Trust (montwt.co.uk)

The Woodland Trust www.woodlandtrust.org.uk

Natural Resources Wales Natural Resources Wales

The Forestry Commission Forestry Commission – GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

The Small Woods Home (smallwoods.org.uk)

Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust WWT (Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust) | WWT

Plantlife Cymru Plantlife :: wales

Small Woods Owners’ Group Small Woodland Owners’ Group (swog.org.uk)

Biodiversity Information Service for Powys BIS (bis.org.uk)

BTO Cymru www.bto.org/about-bto/national-offices/bto-wales

Welsh Ornithological Society – https://birdsin.wales/

Carmarthenshire Meadows Group –  https://carmarthenshiremeadows.com/

PONT (conservation grazing) – What is PONT? | PONT (pontcymru.org)

TCV – The Conservation Volunteers handbooks – conservationhandbooks.com

Freshwater Habitats Trust – Home page – Freshwater Habitats

Environmental Improvement Plan 2023 – GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

The Conservation of Habitats and Species Regulations 2010 (legislation.gov.uk)

The Conservation (Natural Habitats, &c.) Regulations 1994 (legislation.gov.uk)

September 2021: Nature and conservation covenants (parts 6 and 7) – GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

Environment (Wales) Act 2016 (legislation.gov.uk)

Consultation on environmental targets – Defra – Citizen Space

Emergency Legislation has been introduced to try and control the Pine Processionary Moth.

Strict controls on pine and cedar tree imports into Great Britain implemented – GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)