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Observatree volunteer’s role in helping to develop the new TreeAlert Report Dashboard
TreeAlert's system manager Lucy Turner explains the helpful role that our Observatree volunteer's play in developing the TreeAlert system, most recently with the new Report Dashboard.
Lucy Turner • 27 Feb 2025
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TreeAlert Demystified: What happens when you submit a report?
A question that the Tree Health Diagnostic and Advisory Service team are often asked is, ‘What happens when I send in a TreeAlert enquiry, how does it all work?’ Here, Chris Berman, entomology diagnostician at Forest Research, pulls back the curtain on what goes on behind the scenes!
Chris Berman • 23 Jan 2025
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Defining Tree Health
Matt Parratt offers an explanation of how to define tree health in the context of Observatree.
Matt Parratt • 21 Nov 2024
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Canker Stain of Plane
A summary of the damage caused by Canker Stain of Plane.
Alex Lewis • 01 May 2024
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New look for TreeAlert!
Lucy Turner, TreeAlert Coordinator, gives an overview of some of the latest improvements to the TreeAlert system.
Lucy Turner • 18 Jul 2023
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Investing in tree health
At the start of this year, scientists at Forest Research moved into their new state-of-the-art tree health laboratories at Alice Holt in southern England. This new £5.8 million quarantine facility represents a significant expansion of the UK’s capacity to combat tree pests and diseases – threats which continue to emerge due to climate change and globalisation.
Dr Gerard Clover • 24 May 2022
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Oak Processionary Moth
Oak processionary moth (OPM) caterpillars are priority pests which target trees in the Quercus genus. They were accidentally introduced into England in 2005, but thanks to strict survey and control programme, they have not become established outside of the South of England.
Fritha West • 18 Apr 2022
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It’s full steam ahead for Observatree in 2022
Observatree has now been in operation for eight years; and during that time, our volunteers have submitted over 13,500 reports.
Peter Crow • 21 Feb 2022
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Observatree volunteers go from strength to strength
Over 13,500 reports have been submitted to date and our volunteers continue to build on this extremely valuable e-resource. During 2021, 174 reports were submitted to Forest Research for suspected priority pests and diseases.
Ana Perez-Sierra • 21 Feb 2022
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Observatree volunteers help the Woodland Trust manage OPM
Over the course of 2021, many of our invaluable citizen scientists have continued their surveillance of Woodland Trust sites for Oak Processionary Moth (OPM).
Rebecca Gosling • 24 Nov 2021