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The Woodland Trust is the UK’s leading woodland conservation charity dedicated to the protection of our native woodland heritage. By providing habitats for many of our threatened native wildlife species, images of beauty for people to enjoy, and a testament to our living history, ancient trees are a vital part of our natural and cultural heritage. This promotion is to support our ‘Ancient Tree Hunt’, a major UK project for the protection and preservation of the UK’s ancient trees. The Ancient Tree Hunt will establish a database of ancient trees and a network of people to preserve and protect them and the species they host. |
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Sweet Chestnut, Richmond Park.
The swirling, twisted bark, so typical of the sweet chestnut, is gnarled and contorted with age. Old bark is host to a wonderful range of small animals, fungi, lichens and plants some of which are found nowhere else.These species are rare and declining and have difficulty moving far to colonise other trees until their bark reaches the right condition with age.
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English Oak, Hampstead Heath - Corporation of London.
The exposed buttress roots of an ancient oak in late autumn. These are just the tip of the iceberg, because as much of the tree is underground as above ground. The roots are mostly spread out in the upper layers of the ground stretching out over an area two and a half times that of the canopy. |
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