Wildlife Woodlands was formed with the intention of being able to
offer the benefits and pleasures of woodland ownership to a wider
audience. The future of woodland conservation relies on a network
of well managed privately owned sites as well those in public
ownership and conservation charities. You too can own a small
piece of Britain’s heritage, and gain great pleasure from the site
as well as protecting something for future generations.
Wildlife Woodlands are not
estate agents and we own all of the woods which are for sale on
this website. Great care has been taken to select woods with
stunning positions and high conservation value. Most have been
managed specifically to improve their habitat value and their
accessibility.
Wildlife Woodlands is a
small company run by ecologists Simon Humphreys and Stephen Lees.
Both of us have worked in the nature conservation sector and
forestry for over twenty five years.
Simon studied Botany at
Bristol and then Forestry at Oxford, later setting up the East
Cornwall Small Woodland Project in 1983. This project later grew
into Silvanus Services Ltd, which Simon ran as Managing Director
and the Silvanus Trust, a charity dedicated to the conservation of
woodlands in the south west. Simon is a Chartered Environmentalist
and a member of the Institute of Ecology and Environmental
Management and the Arboricultural Association. He works with
other environmental professionals on impact assessment projects.
Stephen spent his student
days at Cambridge and then University College, where he obtained
an MSc in Conservation. He later met Simon at the East Cornwall
Small Woodland Project, when planning to start a contracting
business, which ran for ten years as Wildlife Woodlands. He worked
with BTCV (British Trust for Conservation Volunteers) for many
years, as a volunteer and later on the staff as a Director of the
trading company. He has worked for British Waterways as
Conservation Officer for the Montgomery Canal , and is currently
south west England recreation manager for the Forestry
Commission. He owns 13 acres of recently planted woodland in
Cornwall.
