Ambitious plans by NI Water to plant 1 million trees across Northern Ireland by 2030 have almost reached the halfway mark.

Wild Haweswater, a partnership between the RSPB and landowner United Utilities, near Bampton in the Lake District, has won the annual Ashden Award for Natural Climate Solutions.

A partnership project between the National Trust, Yorkshire Water and the Woodland Trust has announced a landmark programme of work to restore and improve the UK’s uplands – the organisations will work together to create 350 hectares of woodland, install thousands of natural flood management interventions and restore peatland.

Natural England and the Environment Agency have announced today they are beginning legal action against a landowner for damage to a protected area of the River Lugg in Herefordshire which has caused suspected significant and long-term ecological harm.

Applications for the Forestry Commission-delivered Woods into Management Forestry Innovation Funds and the Tree Production Innovation Fund are reopening today.

Solihull has become the first location to have trees as part of the initiative of Severn Trent and Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games to create 2022 acres of Commonwealth Forest across the Midlands.

Severn Trent has reached a milestone in its project to plant 72 Tiny Forests across the West Midlands, in celebration of Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games, with 10,000 trees planted in just three weeks.

The Government has unveiled the next stages of its plan to reward farmers and landowners for actions which benefit the environment, supporting sustainable food production alongside nature recovery and work towards net zero.

The Environment Agency and Leeds City Council,have planted 15,000 trees in Keighley to reduce flood risk and mitigate climate change as part of a Natural Flood Management Programme which aims to reduce flood risk in the River Aire catchment.

South West Water has reached its target to plant at least 100,000 trees by 2030 announced in 2019 nearly a decade early.