UK Biosecurity in numbers

For a first blog post I thought that I would simply upload this image. It sets out some figures and costs in the context of plant health and biosecurity in the UK. The orange circles relate to pest threats; the green circles detail a range of environmental, social and economic £ values that we need to protect; and the red circles indicate what breaches of biosecurity may cost.

Links to references:

I – Independent Panel on Forestry – Final Report, 2012; II - The £15 billion cost of ash dieback in Britain, Hill et al. 2019; III - Update of the Xylella spp. host plant database, 2018; IV – UK Plant Health Risk Register; V - Securing the future of the garden and horticulture sector, APPGHG, 2018; VI - Tree Health Resilience Strategy, 2018; VII - The economic impact of ornamental horticulture and landscaping in the UK, 2018; VIII - New £1m toolkit launched that assesses economic value of green infrastructure in cities; IX - Plant Diseases and Biosecurity, Beales et al. 2019; X – www.planthealthy.org.uk, September 2019; XI Valuing London’s Urban Forest - Results of the London i-Tree Eco Project, 2015.