BBC News–Scientists assessing dangers posed to the world’s trees have revealed that more than a third of species are facing extinction in the wild.
The number of threatened trees now outweighs all threatened birds, mammals, reptiles and amphibians put together, according to the latest update to the official extinction red list, external.
Certainly I feel the threat in my small 5 acres of woodland, where 12 good sized oaks have got to Acute Oak Decline.