National summaries of the EU Birds and Habitats Directives reporting are now available

The latest report on how EU Member States are achieving the objectives of the EU Birds and Habitats Directives are now out!

Check out how your country is doing in protecting nature!

The Birds and Habitats Directives are the cornerstone of the EU’s nature conservation legislation. They are the foundation on which the Natura 2000 network is built on protecting the Europe’s most valuable and threatened nature. According to these so called Nature Directives, each EU Member State is obliged to report every six years on how it is achieving the objectives of these Directives. The latest reporting covers the period 2019‒2024.

And the results are out! The results contain a wealth of information, and you can browse all the information in the Biodiversity Information System for Europe. You can check out how your country is doing in protecting birds and habitats by downloading your country’s summary report. You can also dive into a plethora of dashboards that give you interesting overview of the whole of EU or a specific country. Dashboards for birds and for habitats are available.

You can see for example what the conservation status of habitats and species in France is:

The Nature Directive reporting is an important tool to monitor how we are succeeding in protection our invaluable nature. The European Environment Agency (EEA) will compile all the reported information into a State of Nature report that will be published next year.