Angela Merkel’s government has promised more than half a billion euros to revitalise the country’s crisis-hit forests in the fight against climate change. A third of Germany’s landmass is covered in woodland… But a combination of storms, drought, forest fires and aggressively spreading bark beetle plagues have so far this year destroyed swathes of German forest equivalent to more than 250,000 football fields, forcing the government to convene an emergency “forest summit”, held on Wednesday in Berlin. …Germany’s federal government has announced making available €547m over the next four years to remove dead trees and plant new ones, with state contributions boosting the emergency fund to €800m. …Representatives of the forestry industry have already warned the funds won’t be enough to replace lost forests.