The State of Europe’s Forests 2025 report is now available!
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.
