The afforested areas comprise 70 percent of the total area.

Similar rights apply to some of the afforested areas.

Foraging areas of Golden Eagles have been confirmed to not include afforested areas.

Sanxingdui Museum covers an area of about 33 hectares of which the afforested area is over 80%.

The supply of wood and wood products from afforested areas has prevented the over use and destruction of natural forests.

Then, in the 1970s, the owners of the afforested areas, seeing its potential in tourist business, divided the land in solares (undeveloped plots) intended for the construction of summer homes.

Virtually all of the afforested areas and some adjoining areas of moorland are classed as open country under the CRoW Act giving a right of access to walkers.

Numerous studies (e.g. Stoner and Gee 1985, Bull and Hall 1986) have compared the water chemistry of streams draining afforested areas with that of streams draining nearby moorland.

Research on the Plynlimon catchment in upland Wales, for example, indicates that streamflow from the afforested area is c. 15 per cent less than from nearby grassland (Blackie and Newson 1986).

The situation has also changed within the Union, with the accession of forestry producer countries, such as Finland and Sweden and, to a lesser extent, Austria: given that the afforested area of the Union has now doubled, the economic and political importance of the forestry sector has increased substantially within the Union.