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    Woodland visitors by age group

     Public Opinion of Forestry surveys – woodland visitors by age group In the UK 2015 Public Opinion of Forestry survey, around three fifths (62%) of respondents aged 35 to 54 said that they had visited woodland in the last few years for walks, picnics or other recreation (Table 6.6). This compares with around one half of […]
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    2016 – Populations of wild birds

     Indices of wild bird populations in the UK are produced annually by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) in conjunction with the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB), the British Trust for Ornithology (BTO) and the Joint Nature Conservation Committee (JNCC), and cover a range of species that are native […]
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    2016 – Environment

     Introduction This chapter presents a range of information about the woodland environment, mostly using sources that are outside the scope of National Statistics. They are included to provide additional context to the topic. Estimates for England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland are included, where possible, in addition to UK or GB totals. Further information on the data […]
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    2016 – Public Opinion of Forestry – climate change

     The Forestry Commission has conducted similar surveys of public attitudes to forestry and forestry-related issues every two years since 1995. The most recent set of separate surveys was conducted in 2015 (in Scotland, Wales, and across the UK as a whole) and 2014 (in Northern Ireland). The full results are available on our website at […]
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    Woodfuel processing

     Processing wood to make quality woodfuel
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    2016 – Forest carbon stock

     The total carbon in UK forests is estimated to have increased between 1990 and 2015 (Table 4.1). The carbon in forest soils accounts for most (around 75%) of total forest carbon. Table 4.1 Forest carbon stock 1990 2000 2005 2010 2015 million tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent Carbon in above-ground biomass 360 471 527 583 639 Carbon in below-ground biomass 129 170 190 210 230 Carbon in dead wood 9 10 10 10 10 Carbon in litter 165 175 179 182 187 Soil carbon 1 2 366 2 533 2 […]
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    2016 – Carbon cycle

     Figure 4.1 shows a forest’s contribution to the carbon cycle. Trees absorb carbon dioxide through photosynthesis and release it through respiration; the difference is new biomass. Some of this biomass is dropped to the forest floor as litter (foliage, deadwood, etc), which in due course decays and is either released back to the atmosphere or […]
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    2016 – Origin of wood imports

     Table 3.8 presents data on the source of selected wood products that have been imported into the UK in 2015. Sawn softwood, particleboard, fibreboard, and paper and paperboard were overwhelmingly imported from EU countries in 2015 (Table 3.8): Sweden (45%), Latvia (16%) and Finland (14%) provided the majority of imports of sawn softwood to the UK. Most particleboard […]
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    2016 – UK export values by product

     Wood product exports from the UK were valued at a total of £1.6 billion in 2015, a decrease of 5% from the 2014 total (Table 3.7). Total exports of wood products in 2015 comprised 90% pulp and paper (mainly paper), 5% wood-based panels, 3% sawnwood and 2% other wood. Table 3.7 UK export values, 2006-2015 Year Sawnwood Wood-based panels Other wood2 Wood […]
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    2016 – UK import values by product

     Wood product imports in 2015 were valued at a total of £7.5 billion, a 5% increase from the level in 2014 (Table 3.6). Pulp and paper (including recovered paper) imports were valued at £4.4 billion in 2015 (around three fifths of the total value of wood product imports). Sawnwood imports were valued at £1.3 billion in […]
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    2016 – UK export quantities by product

     A total of 5.7 million tonnes of pulp and paper (including recovered paper) was exported from the UK in 2015 (table 3.5). This represented a 4% increase from the previous year. Table 3.5 UK export quantities, 2006-2015 Year (thousand m3) (thousand tonnes) Sawnwood Wood-based panels Other wood2 Wood pellets3 Paper Pulp Recovered paper Total pulp & paper 2006 415 510 1 214 .. 1 002 24 3 996 5 022 2007 346 599 1 353 .. 971 24 4 749 5 743 2008 222 520 1 289 .. 1 031 10 4 891 5 932 2009 203 451 657 12 896 22 4 […]
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    2016 – UK import quantities by product

     Wood imports to the UK in 2015 included 6.3 million cubic metres of sawnwood (a 2% decrease from the previous year), 3.2 million cubic metres of wood-based panels (1% decrease) and 6.5 million tonnes of wood pellets (38% increase) (Table 3.4). A total of 5.9 million tonnes of paper was imported into the UK in […]