From Plantation Developer to Steward of the Nation's Forests

The UK is a densely populated industrial country with a large demand for wood products, but only small domestic wood production. There is a small, modern forest-based industry producing a wide range of paper products and wood products. Wood imports meet over 80 per cent of consumption. The inescapable high dependence on imports has, in the past, raised economic and security issues. As detailed below, these are now less pressing.