The fight against ash dieback - BBC London

[@lewis1544]

Last 2019 I met an arborist working. I asked him if we had any ash dieback and he said that he had just come across the first tree with it just outside Whitehaven. The same arborist was just trimming the trees in my daughters garden and said that over 90% of the trees in our area had it. It's fast.

[@SeptemberSeventeenth]

It is very fast. Even as someone who works on trees it has crept up very quickly, the amount of ash I have dismantled this year is a huge increase on last year. This week alone I have dismantled 9 as a climber in locations inaccessible with machinery, and it's getting to the point where I don't feel comfortable climbing some of them

[@zotoda]

this is so sad

[@donrayjay]

5% survival seems optimistic from what I’ve been observing. Has that been updated? Something close to extinction unfortunately sounds right

[@SeptemberSeventeenth]

I would say 5% isn't completely unreasonable although a little optimistic, it will affect most of them but there will always be some isolated or protected trees here and there

[@buffi944]

Imported trees onto the island. Why do we import so much rubbish

[@antonymackin]

There's no need to fell them, what a waste of money! They support lots of wildlife even in their skeletal form.

[@LaGriegaGr4fica]

remember when one comment on one video got more attention than your entire channel

[@BadgerBotherer1]

It is when they are large trees near public rights of way that is the problem. Obviously, they have to be removed then for people's safety. The rest should be left. Here in south Wales, I notice many unaffected trees within stands of affected ashes, so I think there is some hope of a good recovery, given time.

[@oliversoanes2548]

Healthy trees should only look like that in winter

[@subham.pathaksubham.pathak1945]

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