Caught between a rising demand for timber, the difficulty of meeting national carbon reduction targets and pressure from environmentalists who have secured a ban on all timber harvesting in native…
FCBA is offering IEFC members the opportunity to have one of their PhD, Post-Doc or Masters students to speak at the Woodrise 2023 event in Bordeaux. Travel and accommodation costs…
In a French landscape famous for its agriculture and Limousin beef cattle, how can we best integrate forestry plantations to benefit local communities, support biodiversity and achieve climate resilience, and…
KEBBE is a cross-border educational project financed by the Euroregion and carried out in collaboration with partners from the Basque Country (Arabako, Bizkaiko eta Gipuzkoako Baso Elkarteak), Spain (Foresna), and…
The B4EST consortium, in collaboration with the IEFC, the INRAE and the FCBA, is organizing a symposium on latest studies on maritime pine resilience and bioeconomy. The event, moved to…
Resin extraction is on the rise and the SustForest+ project has given it a boost. The closing meeting of this European Interreg-Sudoe project was organised by the European Institute of…
The social and economic value of mixed plantations and irregular forests in the SUDOE region is remotely recognized and taken for granted in policy and local development decision-making. Limited information…
A workshop on innovative derivatives from bio-based resins took place on 13-14 April 2020 as part of the European INCREDIBLE project. This online event brought together two distinct worlds: that…
The 8th public meeting of the Gemm_Est & ExtraFor_Est projects, related to extractable chemical compounds from trees, was held online on 22 April 2021. This event, which was open to…
Two recent articles in Nature, Abrupt increase in harvested forest area over Europe after 2015 (Ceccherini et al., 2020) and Concerns about harvested area and biomass loss in European forests…