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Protected Forests in Europe


Protected Forests in Europe

Altogether, Europe's protected forest areas cover about 127 million hectares. Protected forest areas. A means for nature conservation. Protected areas ...

Terrestrial protected areas in Europe - European Environment Agency

By the end of 2021, protected areas covered 26% of EU land, with 18.6% of this area designated as Natura 2000 sites and 7.4% as other ...

Forests and forestry - European Environment Agency

Europe's forests are an essential carbon sink, capturing emissions. EU forests currently absorb around 10% of the total EU emissions. At the ...

We are protecting forests in Europe - EuroNatur

The last primary and natural forests in the European Union are disappearing. Greed for profit, political ignorance and large-scale corruption are threatening ...

Protect Europe's last old-growth forests! | WWF - Panda.org

Leading scientists from 18 European countries highlight the urgent need to preserve Europe's last old-growth forests and call on the EU to protect their ...

Home - FOREST EUROPE

FOREST EUROPE Ministerial Conference on the Protection of Forests in Europe FE develops common strategies for its 45 signatories on how to protect and ...

Most primary forests in Europe are under protection

According to the researchers, comparisons between countries show that the overwhelming majority, or two thirds, of all primary forests in Europe ...

Europe's Protected Area Policies Could Use a Little More Ambition

Most importantly, however, the EU's flagship policy—Natura 2000—has become the largest coordinated network of protected areas in the world with ...

Survey shows Europeans want more protected forests | WWF

A WWF-commissioned independent opinion survey across 12 European countries, released today, finds 93 per cent of the population believe it is important that ...

Protected forests in Europe approaches-harmonising the definitions ...

Forest protection has been harmonised into three categories for the sake of comparison: protection to safeguard biodiversity, protection of landscape and ...

Analysis of Protected Forest Areas in Europe - Provisional Results of ...

In Europe, the European Environment Agency (EEA) and its. European Topic Centre on Nature Conservation in Paris have collected information on all types of.

European primary forest database v2.0 | Scientific Data - Nature

In the newly released 'Biodiversity Strategy for 2030', the European Commission emphasized the need to define, map, monitor and strictly protect ...

Introduction - Save America's Forests

Protected areas have been the most effective means to conserve samples of pristine forests. However, Europe's protected area network is not sufficient: only 6,3 ...

What did the E.U. do to protect forests? - Environment America

The EU recently made a large stride toward protecting forests around the world by passing a regulation for deforestation-free products.

Protect old-growth forests in Europe now - Science

The EU should immediately implement a logging moratorium on areas potentially harboring oldgrowth forests, make resources available to detect old-growth ...

How have forest resources in the European Union developed?

Forests today cover 40% of the EU territory (approx. 159 million hectares, forest cover in the rest of the world on average is 31%), and another ...

Protected forests in Europe felled to meet EU renewable targets

Protected forests are being indiscriminately felled across Europe to meet the EU's renewable energy targets, according to an investigation by the conservation ...

Milestone for the protection of European forests on EU-level

Today, the European Commission proposed the new EU Forest Monitoring Law, marking a significant advancement in our collective efforts to ...

(PDF) Protected Forest Areas in Europe - Analysis and ...

Protected Forest Areas in Europe - Analysis and Harmonisation (PROFOR): Results, Conclusions and Recommendations · 1. Spiritual and religious motivations. Myths ...

Selection criteria of protected forest areas in Europe: The theory and ...

European protected forest areas primarily dedicated to biodiversity conservation have been increasingly selected using standard criteria that refer to three ...