Jo Van Brusselen

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ENO-Environment Net_at_DayForests in Europe
21 November 2001
Jo Van Brusselen Mercedes Rois Díaz European
Forest Institute EFI
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Natural Vegetation in Europe
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Forest as of total land area in Europe
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Ownership of forest and other wooded land
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Net annual increment and fellings on FAWS
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Trade in the European Union
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Southern Europe
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Western and Central Europe
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Northern Europe
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European nature conservation and biodiversity
policies

• Major policy frameworks
• Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD)
• Pan-European Biological and Landscape Diversity
  Strategy (PEBLDS)
• Ministerial Conference on Protection of Forests
  in Europe (MCPFE)
• International legislative instruments
• Ramsar Convention on Wetlands
• Bern Convention
• Bonn Convention
• Birds Directive
• Habitats Directive - Natura 2000
• Convention on International Trade in Endangered
  Species (CITES)

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European Forests and Protected Areas