As well as the ruins of iron age buildings, this precious 500-hectare forest is home to the "druids" – a series of oaks up to 600 years old.
The Blackwood Forest location only opened in the spring; we are hidden in a 270-hectare forest of towering beech trees accompanied by tawny owls, roe deer and a glorious feeling of tranquility.
Labour will this week seek to exploit divisions over Defra's plans to dispose of the country's 258,000-hectare forest estate over the next decade with a Commons vote on the issue.
By extrapolating out to the rest of the 6000 to hectare forest, they estimate that the San Lorenzo Forest contains about 25,000 arthropod species, 60%to70%0% of which are likely to be previously unknown.
Two decades ago, just five per cent of the 6.4 million hectare forest (16 million acres) forest was protected.
Through forest patrols, geo-referencing technology and a solid grassroots movement, this alliance of indigenous Kuy communities has protected a 500,000-hectare forest in the Cambodian lowlands.
The province's forests contain a wide variety of flora; one half-hectare forest inventory identified 189 species of trees and 320 species of ground flora and saplings.
There is a 25 hectare forest on the northern part of the island while the southern part consists of coastal meadows.
The now 85,000-hectare forest fire spread south on Thursday, shutting down ConconoPhillips' Surmont oilsands project and Nexen's Long Lake facility.
Similarly, recent work on Barro Colorado Island (BCI) in the Republic of Panamá has mapped the spatial distribution of soil nutrients and elements within the 50-hectare forest dynamics plot on the island [2].
For example, in the western Ukraine forest growth following abandonment of farmland resulted in a net carbon sink of almost one ton of carbon per hectare forest and year (Kuemmerle et al., 2011).
