Carbon – it’s Contentious

Climate change has put the C word high up on the land use agenda and all of a sudden everyone wants to tell you how great they are at storing it. Sitka spruce growers exclaim, ‘look how fast my trees grow!’ whilst large-scale farmers brag, ‘grassland’s a great carbon...

The Secret life of Fallow Deer

My name is Owain Barton – I am a PhD student at Bangor University. The project I am working on focuses on the fallow deer population in the Elwy Valley region of North Wales. Deer are among the most treasured and charismatic wildlife species in Britain. They are...
Carbon Capture and Storage

Carbon Capture and Storage

The right tree in the right place is a great way of storing carbon. As well as their great mass being a carbon sink, temperate broadleaf woodland is one of the best land uses to help build mineral soil carbon levels. Add to this, the methane emissions that are no...