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Europe’s nature is experiencing a serious and continuing decline. The challenge to protect it is urgent, and significant additional efforts are needed to reverse the current trend.
This briefing shows that to improve management effectiveness, complete implementation on the EU Birds and Habitats Directives is essential. It also brings together results from a study into options for reporting, collating and assessing protected area management effectiveness with a view to informing the new global strategic framework.
The strategic plan of the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) for the period 2011-2020 is coming to an end. During this time, the EU has been delivering on the CBD via its own biodiversity strategy. In preparation of a new global strategic framework, the management effectiveness of European protected areas needs to be improved. The new EU biodiversity strategy for 2030 commits to ‘Effectively manage all protected areas, defining clear conservation objectives and measures, and monitoring them appropriately’ by 2030 (EC, 2020). This briefing shows that to improve management effectiveness, complete implementation on the EU Birds and Habitats Directives is essential. It also brings together results from a study into options for reporting, collating and assessing protected area management effectiveness with a view to informing the new global strategic framework.
The European Union’s (EU) Natura 2000 network of protected areas is expanding. To make full use the network’s potential, the protected sites need to be managed better with clear conservation goals, according to a European Environment Agency (EEA) briefing, published today. The briefing shows, that currently many of Europe’s protected sites lack specific and measurable conservation objectives.
Accumulated ozone exposure values for forest — over a threshold of 40 parts per billion (AOT40f) — for 2018, as calculated for the fusion maps and as measured at rural background stations.
Accumulated ozone exposure values for vegetation and crops — over a threshold of 40 parts per billion (AOT40c) — for 2018, as calculated for the fusion maps and as measured at rural background stations.
The map shows the Natura 2000 sites (version 2018) for EU28 countries.
The map shows the number of terrestrial ART17 species reports per 10x10km GRID cells (2013-2018)
The map shows an index of conservation status of species calculated on a 10 x 10 km distribution grid
The map shows an index of habitat conservation status calculated on a 10 x 10 km distribution grid.
The map shows an index of conservation status trends of species calculated on a 10 x 10 km gristribution grid
This map is a cartogram that distorts the geometry of regions to convey specific information by resizing. Here, the size of the country shows the number of reported species in relation to the country size. The map do not show all species appearing in a country. Thus, the map shows the reporting result rather than the species diversity of a country. The box on the bottom left refers to the Macaronesian islands (Azores, Madeira and Canary islands). Romania has not reported and is therefore not included in the map.
Eastern Partnership countries show significant progress in expanding networks of nationally protected areas
The six Eastern Partnership countries are making significant progress in expanding their networks of nationally protected areas, giving a boost to local nature, according to an assessment released today by the European Environment Agency (EEA) under a dedicated EU-funded project.
Eastern Partnership countries show significant progress in expanding networks of nationally protected areas
На карте показаны как территории, официально включенные в состав сети, так и предложенные к включению
It illustrates proportional distribution of coverage of nationally protected areas, emerald netrok and overlap between emerald and national desginations
For references, please go to https://eea.europa.eu./themes/biodiversity/dm or scan the QR code.
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