Nature and biodiversity - Publications

EU platform statement about the CAP reform and national support for coexistence with large carnivores: outlook for the next funding period from May 2019.

After the adoption of the European Parliament’s non-legislative resolution on the protection of livestock farming and large carnivores in Europe in November 2022, the European Commission has committed itself to carrying out an in-depth analysis of available scientific and technical data on the wolf.

Letter Commissioners Sinkevicius and Wojciechowski to EU Environment and Agriculture Ministers on Guidance Document

Download links for the EU's mid-term review of the 8th Environment Action Programme (EAP).

Proposal for a Council Decision on the position to be taken by the EU at the Bern Convention

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.

The guidelines for Defining, Mapping, Monitoring and Strictly Protecting EU Primary and Old-Growth Forests provide practical guidance to national policy- and decision-makers that will allow them to effectively identify and protect remaining primary and old-growth forest in the EU.