Shaping the future of Sherwood Forest in Nottinghamshire

Having championed the protection and restoration of Sherwood Forest for over 40 years, Nottinghamshire Wildlife Trust has an ambitious long-term vision this iconic landscape and is working with partners to restore, recreate and reconnect wildlife-rich spaces as well as supporting a range of initiatives designed to provide local communities with opportunities to shape the forest’s future.

Nottinghamshire Wildlife Trust is committed to protecting and enhancing the remaining areas of Sherwood's forest and heathland. However, with key areas of the Forest still under threat, efforts to safeguard the future Sherwood Forest need new investment. Alongside our projects to protect the valuable remaining areas of woodland, wood pasture and heathland, we are working with partners to put back areas of the Forest lost to development, intensive agriculture or other changes in land use.

In future, we believe that our success should be measured in terms of how much of the Sherwood Forest landscape we have restored, not just what we have managed to save.

As an active member in the Miner2Major project, the Trust is collaborating with local people and community groups to encourage and support them to take part in projects aimed at learning about, celebrating and conserving the area’s heritage.  We want to transform the way that local people can actively get involved and shape the Forest’s future by creating better habitats and safeguarding Sherwood’s special species.