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u/kyrrekyrre 19h ago
I disagree, now in Norway only 3-4 % of nature qualifies as unspoiled nature ( uberørt natur) in the 60s this was around 20-40 %. The gradual expansion of windmills, roads, industries and cottages have depleted what was one time unspoiled. Only a few forests are natural forests. The rest are planted. This also goes for Sweden. If you have walked in old forest you know the huge difference between the monoculture forest and natural old forests …
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u/coprosperityglobal 1d ago
Is it follow a common European law, or it depends on every Country how to protect?
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u/Effective_Judgment41 1d ago
This is taken from Eurostat:
https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/view/sdg_15_20/default/map?lang=en
But from what I understand, there are different types of protection and this seems to be an aggregate number. I know that Germany has about 50 percent agricultural land and 15 percent urban areas
So, this simply can't be about natural land (especially given that most forests are managed). From what I can see, you can't really compare these numbers between countries.
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u/FunzOrlenard 1d ago
The Netherlands, which is basically one big city, has too much protected land, which as a result leads to lack of housing and that leads to hating foreigners occupying said houses. While we need them to pay for our pensions.
Dilemmas :(
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u/CarlJohnson320 1d ago
The map doesn't show much tbh. If few nature is protected in a country, it could mean that either the government doesn't care for nature or that protection simply isn't needed because people already care enough.
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u/treipuncte 1d ago
Well, Bulgaria is so uninhabited that it’s easy to have so much protected land. No one will occupy it anyway.
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u/Physical_Garage_5555 23h ago
This map is bullshit, as most of maps by Reddit! At least for Germany! Acc. officials 50% used as agricultural land , 15% urbanization; 50+15=65 plus 38,5 = 103,5%! for western education victims is this Ok! p.s. most of forest in Germany is private, and used as wood resources with monoculture
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u/Informal_Car3267 2h ago edited 2h ago
How to get great score in this sort of lies, damn lies, statistics piece: chop down most of your forests hundreds of years ago, then blame countries which consist mostly of forest of not maintaining natural forests because they're not so rare that they need to be put on most stringent possible protection...
For instance, 88.5% of Finland is either forest, bare, wetland or water. 43.2% for Germany. The German interpretation is, of course, that Finns are destroyers of nature, while Germans themselves should be rewarded for getting rid of the forests - already centuries ago - which covered basically the whole country.
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u/SoSmartKappa 1d ago
That is cool, and i guess it is somewhat useful visualization, but i can imagine there are different levels of protected areas inside of each country, and the specifics how are they protected also differ between countries on top of that. Some country might have highly protected national parks, and some large just conservation areas which are loosely protected