The Latest Breaking News from the Forestry Commission

Mitchell & Butlers Retail (MBR), which runs Toby Carvery, has apologised for the upset caused

Campaigners say targets for woodland creation are unlikely to be met because 95% of grants are for planting

Outrage in Colaton Raleigh after trees felled by government agency without consulting community

By keeping rodents under control, owls help maintain the natural balance of Ghana's forests. But superstitious beliefs have led to attacks on the birds. Kwabena Poku Bosompim, regional director of the Forestry Commission in the Ahafo region of Ghana, is on a mission to save the country's owls.

Government curbs transfer of trees to and from affected areas to limit spread of rash-causing oak processionary moths

May Moss, North Yorkshire: Fifty years ago, the Forestry Commission was persuaded not to plant this area. The results speak for themselves

"I don't think our kids would forgive us if we don't fight for it."

Just 192 hectares of ‘natural colonisation’ have been established in England under woodland creation offer

The caterpillars – from the larvae of oak processionary moths, which arrived here 17 years ago in a ­shipment of trees from Holland – have up to 60,000 toxic hairs