Telegraph: Forestry officials have confirmed the Chalara fraxinea fungus, which causes ash trees to gradually wither and die, has been found at three new sites in young trees in Wales. The cases are the first to be identified since the start of the winter, as the symptoms of the disease, which threatens to devastate Britain's 80 million ash trees, become hard to spot in trees once they lose their leaves. The number of cases to be found in Britain stands at 386 since it was first discovered last February,...
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