Two heavy storms <\/b>have devastated parts of Central Europe’s forests <\/b>in the first quarter of this year.
\nStorm Paula at the end of january, and just four weeks later storm Emma hit Central Europe.
\nPaula caused most damage to forests in Austria<\/b>, about 6.2 million cubic metres in total were blown down,
\nmostly in Styria (4 million cubic metres) and Carinthia (1.7 million cubic metres).
\nEmma killed 14 people in Europe and estimates of damage range from 750 to 1,400 million Euros. This storm felled 3.55 million cubic metres of wood in Germany<\/b>, 1.6 million cubic metres in Austria and about 1.7 million cubic metres in the state forests of the Czech Republic. In Slovakia about 70 thousand cubic metres wood was felled by the storm.
\nIn Poland the most significant damage occurred in the State Forests in Wroclaw and Katowice.
\nThe damage in Poland amounts to about 300 thousand cubic metres.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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