Summer Heatwaves and The Dried After this, efforts to take care of a historical tree are interrupted Robin Hood,
recently Season Sherwood Forest has given a challenge to major oak -taking teams, NottinghamshireSaid Royal Society for Conservation of Birds (RSPB).
RSPB is working with tree and Soil To help the 1,000-year-old tree is a hiding place for the health expert-robin hood and their bandit band-which is suffering from poor health.
The soil around the base of the tree was compressed by pedestrians, horses, and vehicle traffic until a fence was installed around a fence in the mid -1970s, limiting water flow, oxygen and nutrients to the roots of the tree.
Tree roots are also in poor condition, lack of significant interactions with fungi and other organisms with analysis.
Charity started a program in 2023, which was approved Natural EnglandTo cure roots and help maintain major oak.
But it states that the UK without significant rains in 2025 and the hottest June in the weeks, the urgency of the work being done for the tree has been added to the urgency, which is to reverse the effect of condensation.
Employees are regularly giving water to the tree in response to the information provided by technology measuring moisture in soil.
The teams have also broken the soil tightly packed around the segments of the trees, by adding organic materials from the forest to feed the soil and then turned the Earth on the roots before stimulating biological activity.
And a young oak has been dropped and the attachment is placed to leave the nutrients in the ground.
The RSPB’s Estate Operations Manager Cloe Rider at Sherwood Forest, who is leading the work, stated that the heat was providing “large -scale tension” for the ancient oak.
He said: “Especially for the major oak, we are sourcing the best available scientific advice and evidence from tree and soil health experts to give a plan to increase the health of the tree, if even more possible at this level.
“But this is not very easy Climate change,
“We can already see that climate change is having disastrous effects on the natural world, and by warning Meteorological Office This extreme weather is ‘new common’ for Britain which gives us the real cause of concern.
“Major Oak has experienced three consecutive summer with prolonged drought during its growing season, and in 2022 unprecedented high temperatures of 40C.
“This year, once again, its leaf coverage displays mass stress that is under the tree.
“A tree with such a complex history, with such a complex history, as it is, which is being constantly increased by very warm and very dry summer.”