Last year saw a record 35.8 million cubic meters of wood logged in the Czech Republic, a year-on-year rise by more than 9 percent, the Czech Statistics Agency reported. The number of trees being cut down annually has been growing every year since 2013 and is connected to the bark beetle infestation which is ravaging Czech forests.     Softwood trees made up a whopping 96.5 percent of the wood logged in the Czech Republic last year. Of this number, nine out of ten trees were spruce trees, which are the ...