The UK’s two native oak species, sessile oaks and pedunculate oaks, support more wildlife than any other native tree ...

An ancient oak tree felled beside a Toby Carvery restaurant in north London was healthy and showed little evidence it needed to be cut down, according to a report released by the Forestry Commission.

British oaks are facing multiple threats which could spell “disaster” for the UK’s most important tree and the wider natural world, experts have warned.