The State of Europe’s Forests 2025 report is now available!
Download and read it here:
https://foresteurope.org/publications_type/soef-2025/
The State of Europe’s Forests 2025 report (SoEF 2025) provides a comprehensive overview of the condition, management, and use of forest resources across Europe. Based on harmonised data provided by FOREST EUROPE Signatory countries, it builds on internationally agreed indicators for sustainable forest management (SFM) and reflects decades of pan-European cooperation.
As the flagship report of the FOREST EUROPE process, SoEF 2025 serves as a key reference for policymakers, researchers, and stakeholders, supporting informed decision-making and strengthening the science–policy interface in a rapidly changing environmental and socio-economic context.
In the preface, Mr Peter Kullgren, Swedish Minister of Rural Affairs and current Chair of FOREST EUROPE, expresses the hope that this sixth edition of the SoEF report supports a constructive, fact-based dialogue and fosters collaboration among countries, policymakers, forest owners and managers, scientists, academia, and other stakeholders within as well as beyond the forest sector, and that, together, forests can continue, now and in the future, to fulfil their ecological, economic, and social functions.
The SoEF 2025 is a common activity of the FOREST EUROPE signatories, their monitoring and statistical experts, and a joint pan-European data collection of FOREST EUROPE, the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE), and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). This collaborative framework ensures both the robustness and comparability of data at pan-European level. The SoEF 2025 is prepared by the European Forest Institute (EFI).
With a reporting period of five years, the SoEF provides a regular backbone for gathering SFM-related information and contributes directly to FOREST EUROPE’s ongoing commitment to strengthen monitoring, reporting and assessment of sustainable forest management in Europe.
Quantitative data reported by the FOREST EUROPE signatory countries can be publicly accessed under the joint pan-European UNECE/FAO data interface.
LINKS
All links below lead to FOREST EUROPE’S website, except for the joint database.
State of Europe's Forests 2025 Report (SoEF 2025):
https://foresteurope.org/publications_type/soef-2025/
SoEF 2025 Annex: Data Tables
https://foresteurope.org/publications_type/soef-2025-annex-data-tables/
Joint pan-European UNECE/FAO data interface:
https://fra-data.fao.org/assessments/panEuropean/
News post on the release of SoEF 2025:
https://foresteurope.org/the-state-of-europes-forests-2025-available-now/
SHORT ABOUT THE SoEF 2025 REPORT
The sixth State of Europe’s Forests report (SoEF 2025) provides a comprehensive overview of the condition, management, and use of forest resources across Europe. It is based on harmonised data provided by countries and builds on internationally agreed indicators for sustainable forest management.
As the flagship report of the FOREST EUROPE process, SoEF 2025 serves as a key reference for policymakers, researchers, and stakeholders, supporting informed decision-making and strengthening the science–policy interface in a rapidly changing environmental and socio-economic context.
SHORT-SHORT
The State of Europe’s Forests 2025 report (SoEF 2025) provides an overview of forest conditions, management and use across Europe, based on harmonised country data and agreed indicators for sustainable forest management.
ABOUT FOREST EUROPE
FOREST EUROPE is the voluntary high-level political process for dialogue, cross-sectoral cooperation and transboundary cooperation on forests and forestry in Europe. Its objectives are to strengthen Sustainable Forest Management (SFM) across the pan-European region and to provide appropriate responses to current forest policy challenges for its Signatories as well as allowing flexibility regarding new emerging issues.