storms, drought and bark beetles have added to the forest in the past year. Large areas must be reforested – and the next plague threatens.
storms and bark beetles have raged like the axe in the forest. “The finding is clear: The situation is very serious,” says Maren Klein, spokeswoman of the Federal Ministry of the environment. The Ministry of agriculture has time, more precisely, of all things, Alone, because of the damage of 2018 of 114,000 hectares of forest need to be replanted – an area nearly half as large as the Saarland.
The fourth most severe event in the German forestry industry in 30 years, stated in the the Federal government’s response to a request from the FDP deputies Karlheinz breast. “These are billions of dollars in losses,” says the FDP man.
storms have done in the past year, major damage in the German forests.
“damage is significantly greater than”
Actually, the situation is even much worse, says Georg umbrella Beck, President of the German forestry Council, an Association among forest owners. “The Federal government is obviously trying to anticipate the damage down. We have a significantly larger damage than what the government expects.”
criticism of government assistance
First hurricane, “Friederike”, then rain, then three months of drought, then four waves of bark beetle infestation, so screen Beck describes the martyrdom of the German forest in 2018: “This is not a Drama to an extent as we had in the last 50 years in Central Europe.” Therefore, the FDP politician’s bosom is not at all satisfied with what the government is doing now to mitigate the damages: “The Federal government is providing five million, and the damage is billion. This is a drop on the hot stone.”
The Ministry of agriculture points out: It is to be five million per year, for five years. Tax relief there is also. More, spokeswoman Bürgelt, Michaela, was first planned: “so Far, the number 25 million. You will need to check.”
