Research · October 2025 · Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
The status of Mediterranean forests 2025
Selected by José Miguel Medeiros
The forests of the Mediterranean, Portugal included: restoring degraded land, managing wildfire through planning, fuel management and communities, urban forests and monitoring.
Key figure
395,000 hectares a year: the average land burnt in the Mediterranean area from 2010 to 2023, more than 5.5 million in all.
About the publisher
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. The report was prepared for Silva Mediterranea, its committee on Mediterranean forestry.
Useful for
Municipalities and landholders in central Portugal facing fire risk, and anyone scoping fuel management or post-fire restoration.
Credit and license FAO. 2025. The status of Mediterranean forests 2025. Rome. https://doi.org/10.4060/cd6921en. Licence: CC BY 4.0. We host this copy unchanged, under the publisher's open license.
Summary and figure by General Value from the published source. The report belongs to its publisher.