According to the Department's statistics there are around 250, 000 ash trees in the Isle of Man.
The government has put a complete ban on the importation of ash trees, ash products and seeds.
Some scientists warn the outbreak has the potential to devastate the UK's population of 80 million ash trees.
The majority of confirmed cases have been recorded at nurseries or sites where young ash trees had been recently planted.
Some scientists have warned that the outbreak has the potential to devastate the UK's population of 80 million ash trees.
The deadly chalara fungus is creeping its way across Britain and is threatening to wipe out ash trees it infects.
The government says that the plan to plant 250, 000 young ash trees is the first project of this kind in Europe.
So I decided to look more closely, and after searching and searching the forest floor near infected ash trees, I found something.
The Chalara fraxinea fungus, which causes Chalara dieback - also known as ash dieback - has already killed 90% of ash trees in Denmark.
An intensive survey is taking place throughout Wales to spot any signs of the dieback disease threatening to wipe out the UK's ash trees.
In winter of course healthy and sick ash trees are difficult to tell apart as the leaves will all have fallen to the ground.
"We have an inspection from Defra four times a year but in the past ash trees had not come within their remit, " said Mr Blakey.
An Essex tree nursery owner who burned 100 ash trees as a precaution against a fungal disease says government action is "too little, too late".
The Suffolk Coastal MP has expressed disappointment that her constituents have been given "no advice" on what to do with ash trees on their land.
Walkers in the Yorkshire Dales are being asked to take precautions to prevent the spread of a disease that is threatening millions of ash trees.
BBC: Ash dieback disease: Walkers urged to help prevent spread
The emerald ash borer is metallic green and eats only ash trees, with the larvae feeding just below the bark and adults eating the leaves.
In the last six weeks, 100, 000 ash trees have been destroyed and experts say it may be too late to stop the spread of the fungus.
He said names of villages in Essex such as Eight Ash Green were testament to the historic importance of ash trees to communities in the past.
On the western boundary stood a line of ash trees that he wished, in dictatorial moods, to cut down, because they filled his garden with seeds.
Ash trees are about 4 percent of the state's forests, and 80 percent of the state's 45 million ash trees are found west of the Connecticut River.
The disease was first observed as a new form of ash dieback in Poland in 1992, and has since spread to ash trees in many European countries.
The government is to plant a quarter of a million ash trees in an attempt to find strains that are resistant to the fungus responsible for ash dieback.
Ash trees suffering with the newly identified pathogen have been found widely across Europe, with disease infecting up to 90% of ash trees in some areas of Denmark.
Officials are planning future beetle surveys and will try to limit the infestation with "girdling, " in which thick strips of bark are removed from around infested ash trees.
Seminars are being held to offer landowners and tree planters advice and guidance about how to deal with the fungal spores which attack young saplings and mature ash trees.
Mr Paterson also announced that imports of sweet chestnut trees could be banned under proposals to prevent a repeat of the ash dieback crisis threatening ash trees across the country.
Forestry Commission Wales staff are liaising with the owners of infected trees and have written to landowners offering guidance and urging them to take simple precautions to protect ash trees close to infected new plantings.
Artur Ratusznik, district forest manager for the region of Wloszczowa, decided to send samples to his former professor, Tadeusz Kowalski at the Agricultural University of Krakow, to see if he could identify what was killing the Ash trees.
D-shaped holes in the bark or new tree shoots emerging at the root zone of your ash trees may be a sign of infestation by the Emerald Ash Borer, an insect native to the Far East that targets ash trees, says Dave Dailey of Birchcrest Tree and Landscape, in Rochester, N.
According to government statistics around one quarter of the island's trees are ash.
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