All Environment Publications

Soil polluted by trace minerals such as copper and nickel can be harmful to human and animal health and challenging to clean up. Planting angelica on contaminated soils can reduce soil toxicity and restore soil health.

This Red List publication summarises results for the selected European medicinal plants.

The European Mammal Assessment (EMA) is the first review of the conservation status of all wild mammals in Europe according to IUCN regional Red Listing guidelines. It identifies those species that are threatened with extinction at the regional level.

This European Red List provides a summary of the conservation status of the European species of hoverflies, evaluated according to the IUCN Red List Categories and Criteria (2012a) and IUCN’s global (IUCN Standards and Petitions Committee, 2022) and regional (IUCN, 2012b) guidelines.

Proposal for a Directive - COM(2023) 416, Impact Assessment Report - SWD(2023) 417, Executive Summary of the Impact Assessment Report - SWD(2023) 418, Guidance on EU Funding Opportunities for Healthy Soils - SWD(2023) 423

Insects play a significant role in the functioning of healthy ecosystems and human well-being. By providing vital services such as pollination, matter decomposition, and bio-control, they greatly influence the living world.

The European Red List of Birds is a review of the regional extinction risk of all 544 species of birds occurring regularly and naturally in Europe.

Healthy soils are essential for achieving climate neutrality, a clean and circular economy, reversing biodiversity loss, providing healthy food, safeguarding human health, and halting desertification and land degradation.

The EU soil strategy for 2030 sets out a framework and concrete measures to protect and restore soils, and ensure that they are used sustainably.