Tuesday 26 June 2018

Acorn Antics update

Last Autumn we were able to join a scheme run by Natural Resources Wales (NRW)to collect acorns. As many of our native tree species, like oak, have been affected by harmful pests and diseases over recent years, the Acorn Antics campaign was designed to ensure that young oak saplings planted on the Welsh Government estate in the future will be better suited to local conditions, and have a better growth rate and resistance to disease. 

Pupils from Cardiff High School (Welsh Baccalaureate volunteers) worked with the friends and
 acorns were then sent to the Forestry Commission nursery in Cheshire to be grown onto to saplings. They will return to Wales to be planted in woodlands and forests close to where they originated.

NRW representatives recently visited the Forestry Commission tree nursery in Cheshire to visit the acorns we collected and they have now grown into saplings - they will get replanted in Wales in the near future.