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Protect Earth has completed the purchase of an 81-acre site in Bath, between Warleigh Wood and the River Avon, creating a new nature reserve with huge potential for long-term ecosystem restoration.

Wetlands are one of the UK’s most overlooked ecological superpowers, vital for biodiversity, flood resilience, water quality, carbon storage, and long-term public wellbeing.

Shade trees are a simple but powerful way to improve biodiversity, carbon storage, soil health, animal welfare, and farm resilience across the UK’s agricultural landscapes.

Protect Earth’s hedge-laying courses are helping revive a practical countryside skill that strengthens hedgerows for wildlife, farming resilience, and long-term landscape health.

In the midst of the fifth planting season, Protect Earth is looking back at the 2024/25 season, to take a look at all our sites. With 60 sites across the UK, Protect Earth has been pushing forward its

At the beginning Labour seemed to fulfill that promise, bringing eNGOs into Downing Street and listening. However, Labour didn’t seem to hear what they were saying, and the excitement of a new governm

Protect Earth helps landowners across the UK by offering expert advice, finding volunteers, planting trees, and checking on them annually to ensure good progress.

Every habitat in the UK is at risk of being destroyed by invasive species. Woodlands, wetlands, grasslands, lakes, ponds, rivers, everything you can imagine is having a rough time thanks to various...

It interests us how many things we do are connected. Often it's one landowner recommending us to a neighbour, but this story links several services we offer.

Creating a woodland on once overgrazed slopes near Knighton in Mid-Wales. The first woodland we're creating on land we own, biodiversity is already on the uptick.

Ancient woodlands are the crowned jewels of the UK’s natural landscapes. Rich in biodiversity and steeped in centuries of history, these woodlands hold a special place in conservation efforts. At...

At Protect Earth, we tend to focus our energy on what's growing *above* ground—native trees, bursting buds, and woodlands full of potential. But at this year's High Wood Summer Fair, we had an...

Droughts in the UK are nothing new—on average, we face one every 5 to 10 years. But lately, the frequency and severity of these dry spells are increasing, and that’s a big deal for the 140,000+...

Ancient woodlands are living time capsules. Formed over centuries, their value runs deeper than their canopy—it's in the soil, fungi, veteran trees, and the species that evolved to call them home.

What do Ninja Granny, willow sculptures, and a human fruit machine have in common? No, it's not the start of a fever dream—it's Protect Earth's third annual Summer Fair at High Wood, near Liskeard....

Michael Cunningham joins Protect Earth as Project Manager, bringing BSc in Conservation, chainsaw certification, and dedication to support all our projects.

Working with Reuseabox and a Nottinghamshire farmer to plant 1,000 saplings. Grassroots action and collaboration in action.

Join Bristol Avon River Trust for a day-long effort restoring riverbanks by removing invasive Himalayan balsam from the River Frome.

Ancient woodlands are magical pockets of nature continuously wooded since at least 1600, surviving monarchs, industrial revolutions, and bad landscaping decisions.

Screech Owl Sanctuary secured woodland creation funding and invited Protect Earth for a bit of tree planting. Our response was somewhere between gleeful and muddy.