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What is harming Europe’s nature?

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Article Published 30 Sep 2021 Last modified 29 Aug 2023

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Photo: © Alexander Zackrisson, REDISCOVER Nature /EEA

European nature is suffering the consequences of long-term exploitation and pollution. Nature keeps providing us with food, clothes, medicines, housing, energy and other resources, but ecosystems and many plants and animals are in decline, sometimes being pushed to extinction. What are the human activities that harm nature the most and how can we stop and reverse current biodiversity loss?