View the woodland chapter of 'UK Indicators of Sustainable Forestry', as published in October 2002.
Any recent developments, and links to additional information, are shown below.
A1. Woodland area
- Woodland areas are available in region and county reports for the National Inventory of Woodland & Trees 1995-99. Woodland area statistics up to 2009 are published in Tables 1.1 - 1.3 of Forestry Statistics 2009.
A2. New woodland creation
- Annual figures for new planting of conifer and broadleaves in 2004-05 to 2008-09 are in Tables 1.11 and 1.12 of Forestry Statistics 2009. New woodland creation in each of these five years was lower than the average of the previous decade, particularly in Scotland.
A3. Loss of woodland
In the FOCUS project, Question 9 investigated differences between woodland estimates from the Countryside Survey 2000 and other sources. Final results were published in September 2003.
A4. Tree species
Because of space limitations, the published indicator only gives a country breakdown for 1995-99, with GB totals for earlier years (1947, 1965 and 1980). Country breakdowns for all years are available here, as well as areas excluded from the published indicator - felled, coppice, open space (for 1995-99), scrub (for 1980 and earlier Censuses) and area devastated (for 1947).
- Woodland areas for the main tree species are available in region and county reports for the National Inventory of Woodland & Trees 1995-99.
A5. Woodlands in landscape
- The Countryside Quality Counts research programme, tracking change in the English countryside, started in 2002 and reported in June 2004. For woodland it draws data from various sources to assess the location and extent of change and of WGS-funded management. The full report is available from the Countryside Quality Counts website.
A6. Area of sustainably managed woodland
- Updated statistics for the area of woodland certified at March 2009, broken down by country, are in table 1.4 of Forestry Statistics 2009.
- The latest UK and international statistics on area of woodland certified are in certificates lists updated monthly on the FSC website.
A7. Management practices
- Most of the data for this indicator came from the National Inventory of Woodland and Trees (NIWT) 1995-99, so no updates are available. The next NIWT, for which the field survey work is started 2009, records management practices on a different basis, because it does not have a cluster design.
