Court of Auditors calls for more public support for research on forest adaptation to climate change. Report published Tuesday warns of the ravages of deer and the need to group plots together to better manage them.
State has notably created a fund of 250 million euros for forest renewal, with the ambition of renewing 10% of the forest in ten years by planting a billion trees. The situation is all the more critical as the productive conifer forests of the Grand-Est have been decimated by attacks by bark beetles.