Area and share of strictly protected forests in Europe
- By definition, forest means land spanning more than 0.5 hectares with trees higher than 5 meters and canopy cover of more than 10%. It corresponds to the area of productive and half of the area of low-productive forest in Finnish definition.
- Strict protection means that the target of protection is safeguarding biodiversity and no active intervention is allowed as defined for the class 1.1 in MCPFE report.
- The Russian Federation is not listed here because no information is provided concerning the European parts of her forests.
- The figures depict the situation in year 2015, except those for Bulgaria (2010), France (2010), UK (2010), Romania (2005) and Albania (2005).
- Source: State of Europe’s Forests 2015. Updated 11.6.2019.