Despite the fire risk, Australia wants to plant 400,000ha of forest by 2050

26/04/2023 0 Comments 0 tags

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…

Woodrise event 2023 Bordeaux – Forest Resources Workshop

17/04/2023 0 Comments 0 tags

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…

Towards an Intelligent Information Management of Complex Forests in Southwest Europe

13/07/2021 0 Comments 1 tag

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…

Development of bio-based resin products in Europe

22/06/2021 0 Comments 0 tags

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…

Exchanges between Resin Tapping Stakeholders in France

16/06/2021 0 Comments 0 tags

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…

Europe is Entering the Age of the Bioeconomy

25/05/2021 0 Comments 0 tags

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…