UNITED KINGDOM · WALES · HABITATS · WOODLAND
National Forest for Wales
What this layer shows
Sites in the National Forest for Wales: the growing network of woodlands the Welsh Government is weaving the length of the country. 143 sites so far.
Where the data comes from
WFS · datamap.gov.wales
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Facts shown for each feature
Area (ha) · Status achieved
In these presets
Botanical
Built for a botanical survey or NVC walkover: every priority grassland, heathland and the Botanical Value Map, with SSSI and ancient woodland for context. These are the habitats where the species list is the point: unimproved calcareous and acid grassland, lowland meadows, upland hay meadows, purple moor grass and rush pasture, and the heaths. Turn it on before a site visit to see which compartments deserve the most time on the ground.
Forestry
The checks behind a felling licence or a woodland creation application: ancient woodland and its revision, the National Forest Inventory, the live felling licence register, EWCO low-sensitivity land, the 1891–1914 historic woodland maps, wood pasture, deciduous priority habitat, and the statutory designations that constrain felling and planting: SSSI, SAC, SPA and Ramsar.
Other layers in this group
- Ancient Woodland Inventory (Scotland)
- Native Woodland Survey (Scotland)
- Caledonian Pinewood Inventory
- National Forest Inventory (Scotland)
- Traditional Orchards (Wales)
- Wood Pasture & Parkland (Wales)
- Historic Woodland 1891–1914
- Lost Historic Woodland
- Ancient Woodland
- Ancient Woodland (revised counties)
- Deciduous Woodland
- Traditional Orchards