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The average health of EU forests improves slightly, but one third of them are still in decline

Despite a slight positive trend since the year 2000, a JRC study shows that a third of our forests are in decline. The study supports the EU Biodiversity Strategy by assessing EU forest“s health following UN standards on ecosystem accounting.

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