Not For Sale’s planet work in the United Kingdom supports the Community Tree Planting project through Tree-Nation. The UK’s domestic ecosystems are stressed, but its greater environmental impact is offshore: UK imports drive tens of thousands of hectares of deforestation abroad through forest-risk commodities including beef, soy, palm oil, and cocoa.
The UK’s imported deforestation footprint is where its consumption intersects directly with forced labor on farms, ranches, and plantations in Not For Sale partner regions, from Peru to Brazil to Cameroon. Delays in enforcing the Environment Act’s due-diligence rules have left these supply chains largely unpoliced. Community tree planting at home is a visible commitment, but the real leverage is in the supply chains that connect UK consumers to ecocide and trafficking abroad.
A pedunculate oak (Quercus robur) thriving at Suie Fields community smallholding in Galloway in May 2025
This beautiful landscape was almost completely deforested to make way for pasture and now this is one of many projects in the area to try to bring back some areas of woodland.
Great to see this update from Suie Fields in Galloway
These trees were planted in January 2023 and are now really beginning to thrive. They form a woodland edge to a community smallholding and provide some very welcome tree cover to this largely deforested landscape.
A 2025 drone clip of one of the planting sites at Huntingdon, planted in March 2024
This is at the entrance to the site, so borders the busy dual-carriageways that criss-cross the area. When mature this will provide a much-needed woodland edge to the site and be valued by people and wildlife alike.
One of the best parts of my job is going back to past projects and seeing the trees that were planted a few years ago.
Yesterday we went over to the Blue Cross in Burford, Oxfordshire to monitor the trees planted in 2022.
Now they've spent the last two years putting down roots, they're really beginning to grow and are rocketting out of the tree guards on their way to becoming a real young forest!
We can't wait to carry on visiting this site for years to come.
Thanks for all your help to making projects like this possible
On the Lowther Estate in the Lake District, you can clearly see the effect of centuries of deforestation
A few years ago, there were no trees in this huge field!
Today were are seeing trees are being planted alongside a naturalised river. The river is being left to re-establish its own course through the landscape, which will create a much more dynamic landscape. This will slow down the speed of water as it moves through the watershed, reducing flooding downstream and creating wet-woodland habitats in the uplands.
Fantastic to visit the Lowther Estate in the Lake District and see the newly planted trees kindly supported by Tree Nation
After centuries of settlement and agriculture, this area has been largely deforested, with dramatic declines in wildlife populations.
This large-scale planting is part of a multi-year effort to restore vital Atlantic rainforest habitat in upland England forms an integral part of a large-scale natural regeneration ongoing in the area.
An overview of our planting project on the Isle of Arran
This is a community-farm, that produces organic food for local people to buy. Scottish islands are very dependent on imports and this can be very expensive, as well as disconnecting people from the food system.
Planting 5055 trees at this site will create more sheltered fields for the production of this food, as well as engaging local people in the topic of trees and local food.
Great to get some trees planted on the Isle of Arran. This is a very windy place
Here local schoolchildren are helping plant shelterbelts at the very southern point of the island, providing shelter for organic food production as well as fantastic habitat for wildlife.
Great to go and visit this project at Black Cap, East Sussex. This is an extraordinary landscape, right on the South Downs escarpment
This project is all about connecting up patches of woodland. As you can see from the map above, we have planted out 40 metres from the hedgerows in this field to create a woodland edge. In total we planted 4000 trees here in a bid to connect up areas of woodland that were otherwise isolated.
Very happy to have visited the Govan Wetlands last week and to see the fabulous restoration work going on there
This is a wider regeneration of the old drydocks site in the centre of Glasgow that has laid desolate for decades. We are supporting the planting of thousands of trees on the site to create a new green community space for local people and wildlife alike.
Local community members plant Hazel (Corylus avellana) trees at the Manor Stables planting site (Northern Ireland)
This site was too wet to be used by the stables’ horses and so was approved for woodland creation in January 2022. Appropriate species have been planted in the wetter areas of the fields where they will thrive.
