Following the increased protection for ancient and veteran trees in NPPF:2018¹, Sylvan and FLAC Principal Julian Forbes-Laird has designed and now makes freely available RAVEN: the definitive guide to Recognition of Ancient, Veteran & Notable Trees.

“the definitive guide to Recognition of Ancient, Veteran & Notable Trees”

Based on widely accepted attributes published and promoted by the Ancient Tree Forum, RAVEN provides a simple and rapid tool for standard assessment of trees against recognised criteria. RAVEN rests on the presence or absence of determinative features, set within a process designed to reduce false positives whilst ensuring that genuine veteran (and ancient) trees are correctly identified.

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RAVEN is free to use though JFL requires users to retain the copyright tag.

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[1] The NPPF:2019 update does not alter the definition of veteran trees