Fungus threatens ash trees
A disease which has wiped out ninety per cent of ash trees in Denmark has been found for the first time in East Anglia. The government has proposed a ban on importing the trees.
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The Environment Secretary Owen Paterson has been in Northamptonshire today listening to the concerns of farmers and local businesses.
Read the full storySmart-phone app to fight ash tree disease
Experts at the University of East Anglia in Norwich have developed a smart-phone app to help fight ash dieback disease. Called Ash Tag the device holds photos of trees with ash dieback, so anyone who thinks they've spotted it in their area can use the app to check.
They can then send photos into a team of environmental specialists for analysis. Here's the link to the Ash Tag website.
Ash tree imports banned
Imports of ash trees will be banned in an attempt to stop the spread of a disease that has been found in woods in Norfolk and Suffolk.
Read the full storyAsh tree imports to be banned
Imports of ash trees will be banned from Monday in an attempt to stop the spread of a disease that has practically wiped them out in parts of Denmark.
Chalara fraxinea has been found in at least eleven woods in Norfolk and Suffolk. In Denmark the fungus has wiped out 90% of ash trees in seven years. The Environment Secretary will be banning the ash imports which it's believed have introduced the fungus to the UK
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Sick ash trees in the East
A disease which has wiped out 90% of ash trees in Denmark has been found for the first time in mature forests in this country - right here in East Anglia.
Ash dieback is spreading far faster than expected raising fears of an outbreak as devastating as the impact of Dutch Elm Disease in the 1970s when 25 million trees died in the UK alone.
Ash trees at Pound Farm Wood near Framlingham in Suffolk and Ashwellthorpe in Norfolk are among those affected.
Region's ash trees could be wiped out by fungus
A virulent disease which has wiped out ninety per cent of ash trees in Denmark has been found for the first time in East Anglia.
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