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Dept for Environment Food and Rural Affairs

Answer

Norman Baker: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what proportion of trees (a) had full crowns, (b) had slight defoliation, (c) had moderate defoliation, (d) had severe defoliation and (e) were dead in the most recent survey of tree health in Europe under the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe Convention on Long Range Transboundary Air Pollution, broken down by country. [165742] Mr. Morley: The results of the 2002 Large-scale Survey of Forest Condition in Europe is published by the UNECE and European Commission are shown in the table. The report did not separate the `severe defoliation' and `dead' categories. Defoliation of all species by classes and class aggregates (2002) _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Participating Countries Area surveyed No. of sample 0 none 1 slight 2 moderate 3+4 severe 2+3+4 (1,000 ha) trees and dead Albania 1,028 -- -- -- -- -- -- Austria 3,481 7,029 60.2 29.6 8.5 1.7 10.2 Belarus 7,845 9,690 34.9 55.6 8.2 1.3 9.5 Belgium 691 3,079 38.7 43.5 16.1 1.7 17.8 Bulgaria 3,314 5,303 24.1 38.8 29.9 7.2 37.1 Croatia 1,175 1,910 38.4 41.0 18.6 2.0 20.6 Cyprus 138 360 30.8 66.4 2.8 0.0 2.8 Czech Republic 2,630 7,013 11.6 35.0 52.7 0.7 53.4 Denmark 468 480 61.5 29.8 7.3 1.4 8.7 Estonia 2,249 2,169 45.9 46.5 6.6 1.0 7.6 Finland 15,006 8,593 54.6 33.9 10.5 1.0 11.5 France 13,100 10,355 40.1 38.0 20.3 1.6 21.9 Germany 10,264 13,534 35.1 43.5 20.0 1.4 21.4 Greece1 2,512 1,768 42.1 37.0 16.6 4.3 20.9 Hungary 1,804 26,921 38.1 40.7 16.0 5.2 21.2 Ireland 399 424 43.9 35.4 16.0 4.7 20.7 Italy 7,699 7,165 20.3 42.4 33.4 3.9 37.3 Latvia 2,902 8,682 19.8 66.4 12.0 1.8 13.8 Liechtenstein 2-- 2-- 2-- 2-- 2-- 2-- 2-- Lithuania 1,858 5,162 16.4 70.8 9.6 3.2 12.8 Luxembourg 84 2-- 2-- 2-- 2-- 2-- 2-- Rep. Of Moldova 318 11,489 25.2 32.3 32.6 9.9 42.5 The Netherlands 210 231 57.1 21.2 20.4 1.3 21.7 Norway 12,000 7,421 35.0 39.5 22.0 3.5 25.5 Poland 6,868 24,580 8.8 58.5 30.7 2.0 32.7 Portugal 3,233 4,350 47.8 42.6 8.9 0.7 9.6 Romania 6,244 104,366 62.7 23.8 12.0 1.5 13.5 Russian Federation3 6,315 4,144 37.9 51.2 10.2 0.7 10.9 Serbia/Montenegro4 -- 1,104 80.8 15.3 3.7 0.2 3.9 Slovak Republic 1,961 4,207 17.3 57.9 23.3 1.5 24.8 Slovenia 1,099 936 32.3 39.6 24.2 3.9 28.1 Spain 11,588 14,880 24.2 59.4 13.2 3.2 16.4 Sweden 20,600 16,671 49.2 35.0 13.4 2.4 15.8 Switzerland 1,186 1,064 23.4 58.0 11.7 6.9 18.6 Turkey 2-- 2-- 2-- 2-- 2-- 2-- 2-- Ukraine 1,285 1,204 8.9 63.4 23.8 3.9 27.7 United Kingdom 2,156 8,532 27.3 45.4 25.7 1.6 27.3 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. 1 Excluding Maquis. 2 No survey in 2002. 3 Only regional surveys in north-western and central European parts of Russia. 4 Montenegro only.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

165742; 420 c678-80W

Session

2003-04

Subjects

Forests Tree felling

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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