<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">European Union lawmakers today approved the bloc's nature restoration law, keeping alive a policy that has become a target of farmers' protests across member states. The law was passed with 329 votes in favor, 275 against, and 24 abstentions.</p>''<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br />''</p>''<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">According to media reports, the new law sets a target for the EU to restore at least 20 percent of the EU's land and sea areas by 2030 and all ecosystems in need of restoration by 2050. It aim is to reverse the decline of Europe's natural habitats, 81 per cent of which are classified as being in poor health.</p>''<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br />''</p>''<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">The law also sets specific targets such as peatlands that can soak up CO2 emissions and help curb climate change.</p>''<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br />''</p>''<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">The vote followed weeks of farmers protests across Europe, which included a violent demonstration yesterday outside the European Union's Brussels headquarters.</p>