This video, just released by the European Environment Agency, takes viewers on a 100-second journey across Europe, with each second representing approximately 1% of the continent’s land area.

Based on land-cover data from the EU’s Copernicus Earth Observation Programme, it provides an aerial perspective of Europe’s diverse landscapes to provide a visualisation of what the continent’s landscape looks like and how the continent’s land is used.

Not surprisingly, the largest chunk of land cover is taken up by farmland, industrial-sized crop fields, livestock pastures and patchworks of fields. The video also shows how little space is allotted to wilderness and nature and asks: “Isn’t it time to rethink how we use our land?”

Daniel Raven-Ellison, a UK-based citizen geographer who trekked across 12 European countries over a three-week period this year to produce the video, said:

“As a geography educator I want everyone to be better informed so that we can make better decisions for people, nature and the climate. I wanted to make a film that uses science-based information to reveal how we are really using our land – and to physically show how we can make more space for nature.”