43.5 per cent of the land in the 27 EU countries is taken up by forests.
Statistics recently published by the European Parliament (EP) show that, at 10.4 per cent, Malta has the lowest percentage of forest coverage in the entire European Union.
The Netherlands follows closely behind, with a woodland coverage of 10.9 per cent.
On the other end of the spectrum, woodlands occupy a whopping 69.9 per cent of land in Finland, 67 per cent of land in Sweden, and 62.5 per cent of land in Slovenia.
In general, the European Union has witnessed a 10 per cent increase in land taken up by woodland in the past 30 years – encouraging, right?
This means that, in total, 43.5 per cent of the land in the 27 EU countries is taken up by forests.
These wooded areas are responsible for reducing seven per cent of the EU’s annual greenhouse gas emissions.
What do you make of these numbers?