Arboriculture and Forestry

Our approach

Wherever trees grow, they provide both benefits and risks. Trees change over time and need regular inspection and management to realise opportunities or minimise threats. Our experts unravel complex trade-offs between costs and benefits to maximise the positives, ensuring the right tree for the right place.

Industry-leading expertise

Using innovative tools and approaches, we assist you in identifying and understanding opportunities and constraints to development, creation and adaptation. Our approach aligns with relevant frameworks and guidance such as BS5837: Trees in relation to design, demolition and construction, BS3998: Tree Work, Capital Asset Valuation of Amenity Trees (CAVAT), National Joint Utilities Group Vol. 4. (NJUG), National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF), NHBC Building near Trees and the U.K. Forestry Standard.

Collaborative thinking

We strive for excellence and contribute to a resilient and thriving environment. Our national and global network of arboriculture and forestry experts provides clients with invaluable and comprehensive advisory services, enhancing project delivery. With strategic insights spanning numerous linked sectors, we can help clients effectively navigate arboricultural and forestry regulations to improve project outcomes.

Future-focused solutions

With our Future Ready® vision, we aim to ensure that projects not only meet current needs but also anticipate and address future environmental challenges.

Trees and forests are an integral part of all our lives and their contribution to our planet is significant. They enrich the landscapes we live in and understanding their benefits and interconnection with the wider environment, enhances our future.

Duncan Smith Head of Arboriculture and Forestry

Duncan Smith Head of Arboriculture and Forestry

Explore our services

We provide comprehensive advisory services that cover all aspects of arboriculture and forestry, including:

Arboriculture

Urban Forestry: Our BS5837 assessments are designed to advise on the retention of the highest quality trees within proposed development areas. By providing clear and actionable advice, we empower informed decision-making, ensuring that trees are retained and integrated seamlessly into development projects.

Urban Forestry Advisory: We can enhance urban environments, guiding the integration of trees into urban landscapes, providing long-term, high-value benefits.

Urban Treescape: We can ensure the safe retention of trees by reviewing their health, structural condition and longevity and advise on the management of tree pests and diseases to protect and preserve green spaces.

Urban Canopy Cover Assessment: We provide expert advice on natural capital benefits, canopy cover, carbon sequestration, CAVAT values, biodiversity value and human benefits.

Forestry

Forestry Advisory: We offer expert advice on the design, creation, habitat restoration, management and sustainable harvesting of forests. Our woodland condition surveys and innovative designs enhance biodiversity and create recreational spaces.

Conservation Forestry: We take a focused interdisciplinary approach to preserving and protecting forests and their ecosystems, enhancing economic and social value. Our solutions aim to support clean air, water and wellbeing for future generations.

Forestry and Climate: We provide specialist advice on the interconnection between forestry and climate, highlighting their crucial role in regulating the Earth's atmosphere through remote sensing.

Forest Management: We offer guidance on implementing sustainable practices to manage and conserve forested areas including wildfire resilience and response planning, biodiversity assessment, carbon sequestration and canopy cover evaluations.

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Discover our projects on harnessing nature-positive approaches

United Kingdom

Eden Project Morecambe

Eden Project Morecambe is a transformative attraction that represents a once in a generation opportunity for the local community in Morecambe.

Quebec, Canada

Restoring the Former New Calumet Mine

The New Calumet Mine in Québec, Canada, was a lead, gold, zinc and silver mine which was partially decommissioned in the 1970’s.

Ontario, Canada

Bat Surveys and Solutions for the Mining Industry

Bats are an integral part of our ecosystems, and some bat species in Canada are currently listed as endangered due to population declines. In order to receive provincial or federal environmental authorizations, surveys to assess impacts on Species at Risk are critical for many projects. Compensation measures for bats may also be required and solutions to enhance or protect bat habitats can be integrated into restoration or mine reclamation sites.

British Columbia, Canada

Boreal Caribou Habitat Restoration on the Parker Range

WSP worked with a group of stakeholders to develop the Boreal Caribou Habitat Restoration Pilot Program on the Parker Range in northern British Columbia.

Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Little Smoky Caribou Range Rearing Facility

WSP was contracted to inform the Government of Alberta about the considerations for implementing a pilot caribou rearing facility as a population recovery tool.

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Arboriculture and Forestry

Arboriculture and Forestry