File:Cloud-free Sentinel view of the Carpathian Mountains (Copernicus).jpg

English: This image, acquired by one of the Copernicus Sentinel-3 satellites on 10 May 2021, shows a cloud-free view of the Carpathian Mountains. The Carpathians are a mountain range in Central and Eastern Europe, that spans over seven countries (Czech Republic, Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, Ukraine, Romania and Serbia). They are a biodiversity hotspot and home to more than 4,000 endemic species. The range also includes one of the best-preserved primary forests in Europe, 290 square kilometres of which were declared a World Natural Heritage Site by UNESCO in July 2007. The area is also protected by the Carpathian Convention, a United Nations initiative for the protection and sustainable development of the area, as well as under numerous European Union nature and biodiversity conservation legislations. The open data from the Copernicus programme are particularly useful for forest monitoring and management. For example, data released daily by the Sentinel satellites offer the opportunity to monitor the health of forests, while data from the Copernicus Land Monitoring Service provide high-resolution geodata particularly suitable for forest management.