Efforts are being stepped up to save Britain’s rarest and most threatened native species of tree. The National Trust is creating a “living library” gene bank of trees in east Devon to help protect the ...

The black poplar was once as common as oak and beech, but the drainage of land and the demand for faster and straighter growing non-native timber trees has contributed to the gradual decline of ...

A pioneering effort to rescue Britain’s rarest native tree has taken root in Devon, as conservationists create a ‘living ...