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So just to add some extra regional colour to this, it's not all down to deforestation for the purposes of farming or logging[0]. There's some pretty gruesome losses in the South Bohemia region of Czech Republic (around Telč and Dačice) which have an interesting backstory. Trying to recall an information board I read, so it may be a little bit spotty. But there was a big movement about planting spruce forests last century, which has now turned out to be a fairly vulnerable tree to a particular bark beetle (referred to as "kurovec" iirc) and ultimately wasn't very suitable in many of the areas it was planted anyway as tended to die and rot in the warmer climate of South Bohemia. This means that vast swathes of forest that previously appeared to be ok are now under threat and basically need to be felled.

So what you see when you go through there are pretty substantial areas of felled trees. We went a few years in a row to somewhere near a little village called "Zvůle") and the difference was shocking for the years 2019 and 2020. If you look both sides of the road here you get an idea of what I mean - https://www.google.com/maps/@49.0877897,15.2336907,3a,90y,61... Notice that basically all of the remaining trees have been marked, so they'll have been felled too.

[0] - I'm sure in this case they put the wood to good use, but I think they would have preferred to keep the forest as-is

edit: found the area I'm talking about on the map: https://www.globalforestwatch.org/map/?map=eyJjZW50ZXIiOnsib...

I imagine much of the green remaining there is just waiting for someone to come cut it down.