{"id":9405,"date":"2023-05-02T14:35:35","date_gmt":"2023-05-02T14:35:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/?p=9405"},"modified":"2023-05-02T14:35:35","modified_gmt":"2023-05-02T14:35:35","slug":"grant-news-the-northern-forest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/2023\/05\/02\/grant-news-the-northern-forest\/","title":{"rendered":"Grant News: &#8216;The Northern Forest&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"lead\">The North of England has significantly less woodland cover than the rest of the country, but project sets to transform the    landscape. <\/p>\n<p>The North of England is home to 13 million people but it only has 7.6% woodland cover \u2013 much lower than the UK average of 13%. Not for much longer. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.woodlandtrust.org.uk\/about-us\/what-we-do\/we-plant-trees\/the-northern-forest\/\">The Northern Forest i<\/a>s an ambitious plan to plant 50 million trees in and around the cities of Liverpool, Manchester, Leeds, Sheffield and Hull by 2032.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.kent.ac.uk%2Fanthropology-conservation%2Fpeople%2F475%2Fdavies-zoe&amp;data=05%7C01%7CG.Shore-Banks%40kent.ac.uk%7C30e2464feca94dfd9e4a08db4b14d5ac%7C51a9fa563f32449aa7213e3f49aa5e9a%7C0%7C0%7C638186325073623351%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=66lz%2F%2FXpwsxExYlHyy1XSOPpIeZKAgyq7N2Jp%2FrobXM%3D&amp;reserved=0\">Professor Zoe Davies<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/anthropology-conservation\/people\/557\/smith-bob\">Professor Bob Smit<\/a>h (<a href=\"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/dice\/\">DICE)<\/a>) have been awarded a research grant from the <a href=\"https:\/\/eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.woodlandtrust.org.uk%2F%3Fgad%3D1%26gclid%3DCj0KCQjw3a2iBhCFARIsAD4jQB3ujnnqnwVaGJN0voNvUtQCHQVdiPNQWw8UIaWZcfzdnxIaYbQZAZEaAmxLEALw_wcB&amp;data=05%7C01%7CG.Shore-Banks%40kent.ac.uk%7C30e2464feca94dfd9e4a08db4b14d5ac%7C51a9fa563f32449aa7213e3f49aa5e9a%7C0%7C0%7C638186325073623351%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=%2Bu7dPhQfguUawJ9ec3Sv%2F459aw%2B034XGQFMtUL9jeHo%3D&amp;reserved=0\">Woodland Trust<\/a>, to support the conservation<\/p>\n<p>Sam Aizlewood will be the data manager and research assistant, working with Zoe and Bob. The project starts on 1<sup>st<\/sup> May 2023 for 6 months.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The North of England has significantly less woodland cover than the rest of the country, but project sets to transform the landscape. The North of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/2023\/05\/02\/grant-news-the-northern-forest\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66395,"featured_media":9406,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[124],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9405"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/66395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9405"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9407,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9405\/revisions\/9407"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}