Overview
The Forest Trapping Network (FTN) is one of the monitoring strategies outlined in the Future Surveillance Plan (FSP) as part of the Forest Research and Forestry Commission Survey Strategy for GB Priority Pest and EU Quarantine Organisms 2021. The FTN has been designed to complement the other survey strategies within the FSP, whilst also establishing a long-term replacement for existing trapping programmes for quarantine pests. The FTN has been developed as a broad-spectrum, rolling programme which aims to survey 100 forest plots across England, Scotland and Wales over a five-year reporting period, with 20 plots set up each year.