Growers’ spokesman says Ireland on course to fall from 11% to 10% afforestation
Simon White, Chairman of the Limerick and Tipperary Woodland Owners, in an ash plantation in Co Limerick next to a 25-year-old ash tree affected by ash dieback disease.
A forest growers' spokesman warns that Ireland's 11% land coverage with trees will fall to 10%.
"At this rate, instead of increasing our national tree cover from 11% to 17%, which is our aim, we will end up with less than we have now, about 10%," says Simon White, chairman of the Limerick Tipperary Woodland Growers, which works with the Forest Owners Co-Operative Society (FOCS) and other grower groups and stakeholders to lobby for the forest industry.
