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Created : Jul 29, 2011 Published : Jul 18, 2012 Last modified : Nov 29, 2012 11:39 AM

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Some 35 % of the change in wetland areas between 2000 and 2006 was due to conversion to agriculture and 49 % to forest creation and afforestation.
Of the wetland area converted to other land uses between 1990 and 2000, 2 % were artificialised (e.g. urban areas), 7 % became agricultural, 12 % water bodies, and 79 % forest and semi-natural areas (EEA, 2009).

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Corine Land Cover 2000 - 2006 changes

Corine Land Cover 2000 - 2006 changes Version 16 (04/2012) - Vector and Raster data about changes between the CLC2000 inventory and the CLC2006 inventory

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EU 2010 Biodiversity Baseline

EU 2010 Biodiversity Baseline The EU 2010 Biodiversity Baseline provides facts and figures on the state and trends of the different biodiversity and ecosystem components. It thereby supports the EU in developing the post‑2010 sub‑targets and provides factual data for measuring and monitoring progress in the EU from 2011 to 2020.

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