Growing Soil Fertility with Trees
Manx Wildlife Trust are on track to be planting over 10,000 native trees per year to enable nature recovery and sequester carbon. Most of our trees are being planted in areas that will be grazed…
Blog: Celtic Rainforest
Blog
Mountain Mile of Difference
Having gone extinct in 1947, the Juniper tree is making a comeback. Our latest planting of 100 junipers along the Mountain Mile follows plantings near Guthrie's memorial in 2016 and 2020.…
Towards a Celtic Rainforest Economy
Manx Wildlife Trust are creating a new temperate (Celtic) rainforest on its largest (105 acre) nature reserve at Creg-Y-Cowin. Once the trees we have planted become established, cows and sheep…
Should I be Horrified!
The picture below is a Google Earth screenshot of the Colden Valley. The dark dots in the heath above the plantation are young Sitka spruce trees. Self-sown in from plantations, Sitka spruce are…
Sycamores Fill the Gap
The illegal felling of the 'Sycamore Gap' tree has put the spotlight on a tree that many have mixed feelings about. On the Isle of Man, sycamore's role is now so important it may…
Bird Trees and Suspended Soils! Get the temperate rainforest lingo
Temperate rainforest is a woodland with high rainfall and are normally found in the island’s hills. Good rainforests on the Isle of Man include Glen Helen, Tholt-y-Will Glen and Dhoon Glen.
…