Forests

(asked on 17th July 2014) - View Source

Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment her Department has made of the annual cost of invasive species to the forestry industry.


Answered by
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Dan Rogerson
This question was answered on 1st September 2014

A 2010 report entitled “The Economic Cost of Invasive Non-Native Species on Great Britain”, based on research commissioned jointly by the GB Administrations, estimated that the annual cost of invasive non-native species to forestry was £109,396,000. The table below provides a breakdown of this figure.

The types of impact costs taken into account are provided in the report, which is available on the on the website of the GB Non-native Species Secretariat at http://www.nonnativespecies.org/downloadDocument.cfm?id=487.

England

Scotland

Wales

Great Britain

Rabbit

£24,352,000

£37,899,000

£7,766,000

£70,017,000

Deer

£10,886,000

£3,866,000

£2,626,000

£17,378,000

Edible Dormouse

£250,000

£0

£0

£250,000

Grey Squirrel

£3,963,000

£1,219,000

£915,000

£6,097,000

Rhododendron

£2,874,000

£2,874,000

£2,873,000

£8,621,000

Insects

£612,000

£2,603,000

£517,000

£3,732,000

Plant Pathogens

£1,195,000

£8,000

£153,000

£1,356,000

Quarantine and research

£1,648,000

£197,000

£100,000

£1,945,000

Total

£45,780,000

£48,666,000

£14,950,000

£109,396,000

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