Search Results: 'Defra'

Ash to ashes
17 December, 2012
Ash dieback has been a wake-up call to the government to take plant health seriously, says David Sulman, UKFPA executive director

Seeing the wood from the trees
29 November, 2012
It was the government’s worst nightmare. Dealing with obstreperous opponents in the Commons and the slings and arrows of prime minister’s questions was one thing. Facing the antagonism of the mass ranks of steely-eyed middle England was something else entirely. This was opposition of a different magnitude – and it was, of course, what ministers faced over their idea to sell off the Forestry Commission’s English woodlands.

Confor lobbies government to make change for better
29 September, 2012
Timber offers environmental and economic benefits, and the government needs to know, says Confor chief executive Stuart Goodall

Protection technology helps make more of timber
17 September, 2012
Steve Young, director of the Wood Protection Association, outlines latest developments in the wood protection sector