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The Copernicus Land Monitoring Service (CLMS) Natura 2000 (N2K) product offers a comprehensive overview of grassland-rich Natura 2000* sites protected under the European Union’s Habitats Directive. This product allows users to monitor the status of Natura 2000 sites, including how they are changing over time, which is essential for informing conservation decisions, creating policy, and increasing accountability for land managers. N2K is currently updated every six years, and consists of five layers—a land cover/land use layer for 2006, 2012, and 2018, as well as a change layer for 2006-2012 and 2012-2018.
*Natura 2000 is a network of core breeding and resting sites for rare and threatened bird species, as well as for some rare natural habitat types which are protected in their own right. It stretches across all 28 EU countries, both on land and at sea. The aim of the network is to ensure the long-term survival of Europe's most valuable and threatened species and habitats that are listed under the Birds Directive and the Habitats Directive. |