Progress towards the European 2010 biodiversity target As the first indicator based assessment of progress towards the European target of halting biodiversity loss by 2010 this report serves two purposes. First it takes stock of the state of biodiversity and its loss in Europe based on the most recent data available. Second it functions as a bridge to a comprehensive assessment of the 2010 target to be done in 2010. As such the indicators in this report do not only show what is currently known. They also show where information is missing and what more needs to be measured and examined to enable a comprehensive assessment in 2010