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Protected areas: over a quarter of EU land – Products Eurostat News

31/03/2026lofaack

The EU has the largest coordinated network of protected areas in the world, known as Natura 2000, consisting of around 27 000 terrestrial and marine sites protected under the Habitats Directive and the Birds Directive (known as “the Nature Directives”). In addition, EU Member States have protected large portions of their territories under national protection schemes.

In 2021, around 1.1 million km² of the EU Member States’ land area was designated for the preservation of biodiversity as Natura 2000 sites or nationally protected sites. This represents over a quarter (26%) of the total EU land area.

The highest share of

Desertification and Drought Day 2024: “United for Land: Our Legacy. Our Future”

30/03/2026lofaack

Bonn, Germany, 21 February 2024 – This year’s Desertification and Drought Day, observed on 17 June, will focus on the future of land stewardship. Every second, an equivalent of four football fields of healthy land becomes degraded – adding up to a total of 100 million hectares every year.

Engaging present and future generations is more important than ever to halt and reverse these alarming trends and meet global commitments to restore 1 billion hectares of degraded land by 2030. The theme chosen for this year’s Desertification and Drought Day — “United for Land: Our Legacy . Our Future.” —

‘We will not give away our land’: Armenians near Azerbaijan exclave | News

29/03/2026lofaack

Meghri, Armenia – One week after Azerbaijan seized Nagorno-Karabakh, Margo, a 74-year-old retired piano instructor, sat in a cafe and wondered if her hometown of Meghri, in southern Armenia, would soon share Karabakh’s fate.

In Armenian, Meghri means the town of honey, but life is rarely sweet, Margo says, not least now.

She believes that following Baku’s recent victory, Azerbaijan, emboldened, will now seek to seize parts of her native region, a strategic strip of land which separates Azerbaijan from its exclave of Nakhichevan.

“We worry every day. Every hour. “We even know where their troops are located at our

Red Sea Attacks Foster Arab-Israeli Trade Link by Land

28/03/2026lofaack

Jeddah, Saudi Arabia —

Houthi drone and missile attacks on Red Sea shipping have spurred the development of an alternative “land bridge” to carry cargo by truck from the Persian Gulf across Saudi Arabia and Jordan to Israel and Egypt.

The project, which is already seeing dozens of trucks per day reaching the Israeli port of Haifa, is seen as an early benefit of the 2020 Abraham Accords normalizing ties between the United Arab Emirates and Israel.

It bodes well for future cooperation between Israel and Saudi Arabia. The United States is seeking to broker a deal that would see

Zara, H&M: The European retail giants tied to land grabbing and deforestation in Brazil

27/03/2026lofaack

The world’s biggest cotton certification scheme is giving the green light to clothes made from cotton farms on mega estates ‘plundering’ the Cerrado.

Cotton clothes, towels and bed sheets from H&M and Zara are “stained” by illegal deforestation and human rights abuses, according to a new investigation.

UK-based investigative NGO Earthsight has traced 800,000 tonnes of cotton from the giant Western retailers to Brazilian estates where land grabbing, violence and corruption are rife.

This cotton is exported to several manufacturers in Asia, which together made nearly 250 million items of clothing and homeware in a year for global stores

The Way To Design An Album Cover: Ideas For Making A Good Album Cover

26/03/2026lofaack

Art & Music

According to Pararaton and Kidung Harsyawijaya, this was the place Jayakatwang was impressed to write Wukir Polaman, his final literary work before being executed by Raden Wijaya. Some historians attribute the sequence of events of resistance and crackdown to the socio-political context of the two conflicts involving King Kertajaya and the Brahmin class. The first is the policy of King Kertajaya who tried to reduce back numerous rights from the Brahmana class.

Art & Music

The Baroque period (1580–1750) noticed the relative standardization of common-practice tonality, in addition to the rising significance of musical devices, which grew into ensembles of appreciable dimension. Italy …

High Museums In Vienna Vienna Information

25/03/2026lofaack

Museum of Art

Then in 1941 the museum purchased a Diego Velázquez portrait of the Infanta Margarita of Spain, which was probably a study for a bigger portrait of her in Vienna. Other major benefactors in the course of the museum’s first quarter century have been Archer M. Huntington and Mr. and Mrs. Henry Timken, whose small art collection is housed in the nearby Timken Museum of Art, established in 1965. The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s second president, Henry Gurdon Marquand. In 1896, the Museum trustees acknowledged Marquand’s huge contributions to the institution by commissioning this portrait by John Singer Sargent. The museum …

Pope: ‘Let’s work together for peace in the Holy Land’

24/03/2026lofaack

Pope Francis sends a letter to “my Jewish brothers and sisters in Israel”, addressed to Karma Ben Johanan, a theologian of Jewish-Christian dialogue, and invites everyone to work for peace in the Holy Land.

By Roberto Cetera – Jerusalem

“My heart is close to you, to the Holy Land, to all the people who inhabit it, Israelis and Palestinians, and I pray that the desire for peace may prevail in all. I want you to know that you are close to my heart and to the heart of the Church.”

Pope Francis sent those words to “my Jewish brothers and