The Forestry Commission is to cut around 450 jobs in England and Scotland.
The losses – about 350 in England and 100 at the organisation’s headquarters in Edinburgh – are a result of the government’s spending review. They will be implemented over the next four years.
The losses will include a mixture of voluntary redundancies and retirements but compulsory redundancies have not been ruled out.
The announcement comes in the same week that consultation opened on the government’s proposals to sell Forestry Commission forests in England.