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At least 100,000 ash trees in the UK have died of a fungus and authorities are trying to stop its spread.

Tens of thousands of ash trees in the UK are infected with dry up branches, causing them to dry up and die. The disease is caused by Chalara fraxinea fungus . After fungal infection, trees wilt and eventually die. Denmark has lost up to 90% of its forests. This is the biggest epidemic for plants in the UK since the 1970s. It is called the Chalara fraxinea mushroom as "killer fungus" , Telegraph reported.

One-third of the trees in the UK belong to the frequency family. Spike-prone disease causes dead or rotten trees and people have to cut or burn them, leaving large gaps in the forests. Because birds, insects and mammals nest on ash trees, their disappearance will cause great damage to the ecosystem.

A tree in the envelope died of Chalara fraxinea. (Photo: ALAMY)

On October 27, British officials admitted they burned about 100,000 trees to stop the spread of the fungus. In Scotland alone, the government burned 58,000 ash trees from the summer to the present. The British government has established a special force, consisting of about 100 people, to handle the crisis caused by the fungus. The members of the force are committed to working 24 hours a day.

UK Environment Minister Owen Paterson said the government will issue a ban on the import of ash trees on October 29.

"I have drafted proposals to submit to the parliament and we are ready to act. Evidence of fungal raging has appeared everywhere. Bringing ash trees into the UK or transporting them will be behavioral. legal from tomorrow, " he said.

Despite officials' efforts, a part of public opinion still believes that the government reacts too slowly, because the first signs of the disease have been revealed 8 months ago. In fact, British authorities discovered the first back-spike disease in February, when they periodically checked an imported ash tree nursery in Buckinghamshire County.

Logging is an industry that generates revenues of up to £ 10 billion a year for Britain. The situation of mass death of timber trees is a serious problem in the context of the UK economy has just escaped the recession last week.

Dame Fiona Reynolds, the general manager of the National Trust, warned that the dry spike disease could have far more devastating consequences in the future. The National Trust was established to preserve buildings, monuments and objects of historical and cultural value.

"We are praying for the scientists to understand that the disease is prone to the branches of the ash tree and find a quick solution , " Reynolds said.