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Ash dieback disease: a lament for a lost landscape
2013-06-24 08:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Telegraph: As ash dieback disease (Chalara fraxinea) takes hold, the indications are that the effects on our landscape could be even worse than the outbreak of Dutch elm disease in the Seventies. There are far more ash trees in Britain than there were elms -- at least 125 million. Ash is the third most common tree species in the UK -- only oak and birch rank higher -- and it is found in just about every region from Caithness to Cornwall, Norfolk to Pembrokeshire. Ashbourne in Derbyshire, Ashby-de-la-Zouch...
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