imported non treated plants and timber

[hedgesparrow]

i went to a local fencing supplier the other day and on asking if they supplied wattle hurdles yes a few. do you get them local NO we import them in from poland. why because they cost £35 each compared to a English one of£60.

i know there has to be a mark up on the product and the £60 is a retail price not trade.

but i then started looking at the wider picture. we have DED. now ash die back. what IF something came in to effect our hazel and or chestnut woods.

if we were to loose these woods those who would be out of a job the wildlife which would be affected. the ripples would go far and wide.

is it not now we should be banning all imported plant stocks and timber not treated to save what we have. we are a island and as such our bio security should be second to none do we not have the plants and timber to enable us to be able to source only from the uk and not from around the world.

its not to late to stop any more nasty s hitting our island

[penfold]

New Zealand and Oz seem to have no troubles. Remember watching a programme about NZ dept of ag inspectors and they sent a team to east timor to check all the army equipment coming back from UN duty.

 

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[sandspider]

Oz are big on bio security - my sister had to pay a cleaning charge because there was a bit of soil left in her walking boots when she went there!

[hedgesparrow]

we are so lax on bio security. yet we are a true island with the continent 20 miles away far enough to stop any airborne being transmitted. if we were to get it naturally then migrant birds would have brought it in from far flung continents

have sent a letter to my mp what good it will do not much not high on there pecking order the EU is more important than looking after the uk

[se7enthdevil]

this island will have had dozens of diseases in the past few millennia i'm sure and wee still seem to be full of trees.

 

the odd species will get hit hard but most are still going strong.

 

nature has a very good way of bouncing back.

 

 

as far as i know we have dutch elm disease, ash die back, sudden oak death and that one that kills the pines yet we are still surrounded with woodland.

[kev7937]

we are so lax on bio security. yet we are a true island with the continent 20 miles away far enough to stop any airborne being transmitted. if we were to get it naturally then migrant birds would have brought it in from far flung continents

have sent a letter to my mp what good it will do not much not high on there pecking order the EU is more important than looking after the uk

 

 

 

I think that some of the cases of chalara were natural and not imported, the random infections in the east blew in.

[hedgesparrow]

some of what we got may be natural. but why do we let non treated woody material be it alive or dead enter our island. we have woodlands that can supply us with all of our needs 90% of the time.

we do not need imported material coming in the only reason its imported is its cheap bottom line. and joe public does not have a clue what they are buying could effect the eco system of this island. its only those who work with woody materials.

will not change until one day hope not something affects us on a large scale then the draw bridge will be pulled up

[GardenKit]

Viking longboats were made of untreated wood, as were the boats of the Armada from which many half timbered houses were made hundreds of years ago.

Smuggled brandy kegs from France were treated with some kind of alchohol I believe. Viva la France.

[Graham]

Spanish yew for longbows. Seriously though we have been and are lax with our bio control. Mind you that little bit of water that separates us from the continent is no hindrance to airborne spores etc.