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| EUROPE STATISTICS | ||||||||||
| Land area: 6,699,880 km2 | Area of forest: 1,870,700.3 km2 | % Land area forested: 27.9 | ||||||||
| Forest Type | Area Protected (km2) in IUCN Categories I-VI: | Total Forest (km2) | Total Protected (km2) | % Protected | ||||||
| Ia | Ib | II | III | IV | V | VI | ||||
| Temperate and Boreal | ||||||||||
| 1 Evergreen needleleaf forest | 2,265.8 | 169.1 | 10,042.3 | 231.9 | 14,171.5 | 52,626.2 | 1,578.4 | 552,842.5 | 81,085.2 | 14.7 |
| 3 Mixed broadleaf/needleleaf forest | 805.0 | 242.6 | 3,359.1 | 21.6 | 2,947.4 | 24,041.0 | 478.0 | 278,548.8 | 31,894.7 | 11.5 |
| 5 Deciduous broadleaf forest | 1,605.9 | 98.9 | 6,818.9 | 242.7 | 8,781.4 | 38,777.9 | 785.3 | 519,923.3 | 57,111.0 | 11.0 |
| 7 Sclerophyllous dry forest | 1.5 | 0.1 | 404.9 | 4.9 | 1,885.5 | 4,470.5 | 3.7 | 86,169.9 | 6,771.0 | 7.9 |
| 9 Sparse trees/parkland | 779.3 | 3,531.6 | 2,840.6 | 14.9 | 3,683.4 | 6,024.5 | 3,999.9 | 160,601.1 | 20,874.1 | 13.0 |
| 12 Unspecified Forest Plantation | 11.3 | 0.0 | 44.8 | 9.2 | 31.2 | 9.5 | 0.0 | 8,073.1 | 105.9 | 1.3 |
| 13 Unclassified forest data | 5,951.1 | 0.0 | 1,501.2 | 241.5 | 5,395.7 | 1,440.3 | 0.0 | 264,541.6 | 14,529.8 | 5.5 |
| Total | 11,419.8 | 4,042.2 | 25,011.8 | 766.7 | 36,896.1 | 127,389.8 | 6,845.3 | 1,870,700.3 | 212,371.7 | 11.4 |
Click here for a summary pie chart of all forest type's protection by IUCN Category,
or on each of the forest types below for summary pie charts by type:
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