English: Forests and other wooded land areas cover more than 40% of Europe, making our continent one of the most forest-rich regions of the world. They are home to many ecosystems and host the bulk of Europe’s biodiversity. According to a study recently published in the Nature Communication scientific journal, the effects of climate change have made European forests more vulnerable to hazards like fires, insect outbreaks and windthrows, or their combination. More than 60% of the forest biomass is now potentially exposed to these risks, surrounding forests' future role in wood provision and carbon sequestration in growing uncertainty. This image, which has been acquired by one of the Copernicus Sentinel-2 satellites on 31 December 2020, shows the Parque Natural de la Tenencia de Benifasar and Parque Natural dels Ports, located in Spain. These two natural parks contain some of the better-preserved forests in the entire region, but, as indicated in the study, these areas have some of the highest fire vulnerability in Europe. The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission supplies open data that allow for the implementation of innovative applications for forest fire detection and monitoring.