Dear Nick:
Here a table that includes the UK. According to J.R. Purey-Cust,
Japan supplies 30.5% of its wood needs (1992) from their domestic
supplies while the UK provides 11.7% of their needs from
home-grown wood. The UK has about 46% of the
landbase in pasture while Japan has only 2% in pasture.
I do not know for how long Japan has been establishing plantations
but it might be longer than the UK.
Plantations as % of
Total Area Plantations "Natural" landbase woods
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------------- 1,000 ha ---
Japan 37,783 10,317 13,523 27% 43%
Ukraine 57,995 4,714 4,686 8% 50%
UK 24,160 2,390 173? 10% 93%
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(note: the 173,000 ha of "non-plantation" woods is a guess
and may be an overestimate).
>At 05:01 PM 4/8/98 +0100, you wrote:
>In the UK we have been planting forests for centuries and on that basis can
>claim to have an even higher percentage of plantations. However we pride
>ourselves on trying to achieve an attractive (aesthetically and for
>wildlife) and productive resource.
>
>Nick Ananin at Vision Forestry, Aberdeen, Scotland
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