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Bring back nature

Healthy ecosystems

Our ecosystems are in poor health. Climate change is but one reason, other drivers are harmful practices in our agriculture, forestry and fisheries sectors.

We need to change these practices to protect and restore nature.

EU action to bring back nature

We are losing nature faster than ever. Scientists believe that we are living through the sixth mass extinction, and first mass extinction since humans occupied the Earth.

But we depend on nature. The planet can survive mass extinction, we cannot.

Luckily, nature has an incredible capacity to bounce back. We know how to protect and restore nature. We also know how to reconcile nature protection and our needs as humans. We need to act strongly, and now!

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OUR KEY DEMANDS

    • Protect at least 30 percent of the EU’s land and sea area, and set aside at least 10 percent as strictly protected areas.
    • Restore 30 percent of drained wetlands, regardless of whether they have been drained for agricultural production, forests or peat extraction.
    • Promote ecological forestry practices. Such approaches are already practised on an estimated 22 to 30 percent of the EU’s forested area.
    • Stop destructive fishing practices in EU-protected areas. The EU can no longer tolerate practices like bottom trawling, scraping all sea life from the bottom of the seabed, in its marine protected areas.

OUR CAMPAIGN ACTIVITIES

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Bring back nature in Croatia

In this episode, Greens/EFA MEP Ska Keller visits the Kornati National Park in Croatia. Created in 1980, the National Park hosts a variety of marine life, including algae, corals, molluscs, crabs and fish
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Sarpa salpa fish / CC0 marino-linic
Opinion |

No nature, no fish - Why we need (more) marine protected areas

Caroline Roose
Opinion by Caroline Roose
Marine biodiversity in the Mediterranean is declining. MEP Caroline Roose explains how more marine protected areas can save our oceans.
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Bring back nature in France

Given the alarming state of our ecosystems, it is no longer sufficient to protect the nature we have left. We also need to restore nature that has been degraded. In this episode, Greens/EFA MEP Caroline Roose visits the Côte Bleue Marine Park close to Marseille, France.
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Bring back nature in Belgium

In this episode, Greens/EFA MEPs Sara Mathieu and Thomas Waitz visit the Dijle River near Oud Heverlee, Belgium.
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Bring back nature in Ireland

In this episode, Greens/EFA MEPs Jutta Paulus and Grace O’Sullivan visit Abbeyleix Bog in County Laois, Ireland.
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Bring back nature in Poland
Bring back nature in Poland
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Bring back nature in Poland

In this episode, Greens/EFA MEPs Jutta Paulus and Hannah Neumann visit the Ina river, a tributary to the Odra river in Northern Poland.
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Bring back nature in Germany

In this episode, Greens/EFA MEP Martin Häusling visits a project to bring back the partridge to Hesse, Germany.
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Bring back nature in Sweden

In this episode, Greens/EFA MEP Anna Deparnay-Grunenberg visits the Dalagård Forest in Dalarna, Sweden.
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Press release |

Member States fail to ban glyphosate - Greens/EFA urge Commission to act

Member States missed their last chance to ban the use of glyphosate for the next decade. The Commission will now take a decision on the renewal of the use of glyphosate. The Greens/EFA urge the Commission to take into account the overwhelming scientific proof of the dangers of using glyphosates both for peoples health and for nature
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Letter |

Letter to Commission President von der Leyen on glyphosate

The undersigned Members of the European Parliament are deeply concerned regarding the Commission’s proposal to renew the market licence of the active substance glyphosate for a period of 10 years, in light of new evidence that glyphosate-based herbicides can cause leukaemia in rodents.