Britain’s Ash Forests Face Extinction – But A Tree Named Betty Could Save Them

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Ash accounts for 20% of the UK’s trees. www.shutterstock.com/Phil MacD Photography

Ash dieback is back in the news, even though it never really went away. The first confirmed reports were from a few woodlands in East Anglia in late 2012, and urgent surveys soon established a much wider distribution in other parts of England as well as Scotland and Wales.