Conservationists are calling for people to use cuttings from one of UK's rarest native timber trees to help save the species. Cuttings of the black poplar have been cultivated at Bere Marsh Farm ...

“Black poplars need male and female trees within 200m of each other ... “It has important biodiversity value to numerous species including the poplar hawk moth, hornets, figure of eight ...

The National Trust said black poplar trees were once as common ... to form a breeding population of male and female trees to make the species resilient again. Fi Hailstone, National Trust ...

The black poplar is an iconic tree species that has seriously declined in Herefordshire. Over the last 30 years, only 150 native black poplars have been identified in the county through the Black ...

as conservationists create a ‘living library’ of black poplar trees at Killerton. The project, spearheaded by the National Trust, aims to establish a breeding population of the species ...

but the drainage of land and the demand for faster and straighter growing non-native timber trees has contributed to the gradual decline of the species. Ecologist Fi Hailstone plants black poplar ...