date:Jun 28, 2016
nteers and nearly 1500 orchard owners, has identified more than 35,000 individual orchards in England and more than 7,000 in Wales.
Alarmingly, this work revealed that 90 per cent of traditional orchards have been lost since the 1950s.
Furthermore, 45 per cent of the remaining orchards surveyed in England and 35 per cent of orchards in Wales were found to be in a declining condition as a habitat.
By far the most common reason for this is lack of replacement tree replanting, meaning these rema