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Jelena Prtoric
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Dataharvest&investigative journalism. Focusing on environment/migration/press freedom/Balkans.
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Here is the (AMAZING) Arena story:
greentogrey.eu

And the (promised) link to the methodology:
greentogrey.eu/methodology/
Green to Grey – How Europe is squandering the little nature it has left
Green to Grey is a pioneering collaboration between journalists and scientists counting every green space lost in Europe between January 2018 and December 2023.
greentogrey.eu
October 2, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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...including 12 sq km in areas designited to be of outstanding natural beauty...

www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘Desecration of landscape’: the fight over development in areas of outstanding natural beauty
Residents of Woodgate estate in West Sussex enjoy its open spaces and wildlife but conservationists say it has set worrying precedent
www.theguardian.com
October 2, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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🌲🚜💨 Nature and farmland equivalent in size to that of the New Forest – 604 sq km – was lost to concrete and bricks and mortar in the UK

www.theguardian.com/environment/...
UK fifth-worst country in Europe for loss of green space to development
Exclusive: 1,680 football pitches of protected natural land in England, Wales and Northern Ireland lost in five years
www.theguardian.com
October 2, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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An area the size of Cyprus – was turned from green to grey between 2018 and 2023, according to the data (which is v. clever...link to methododolgy at the end)

That's 9,000 km2 – 30km2 a week – or 600 football pitches a day 🤯

www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Revealed: Europe losing 600 football pitches of nature and crop land a day
Investigation shows extent of green land lost across UK and mainland Europe to development from 2018 to 2023
www.theguardian.com
October 2, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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📽️ Notre panorama interactif @lemonde.fr : www.lemonde.fr/les-decodeur...

📊 La destruction des espaces naturels largement sous-estimée par l’Union européenne : www.lemonde.fr/les-decodeur...
Près de 50 m² de nature détruits chaque seconde : visualisez le bétonnage à grande échelle de l’Europe
Hangars, usines géantes, villas… Pixel après pixel, l’analyse inédite d’images aériennes de notre enquête « Green to Grey » dévoile les causes et l’ampleur de l’artificialisation qui transforme le con...
www.lemonde.fr
October 1, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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🇪🇺 The new EU Restoration Law means journalists need to be geared to critically look at local and national nature restoration efforts.

[2/3👇] Join Rina Tsubaki of @efieuropeanforest.bsky.social, @jonassimons.bsky.social at KU Leuven and Arena's @jelena-prtoric.bsky.social to explore:
September 9, 2025 at 8:42 AM