The triannual IUFRO Wind and Trees Conference organised by IUFRO Unit 8.0.3.06 was held in Castelfranco Veneto from 20 to 23 June 2023. The meeting was hosted by the University…
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…
Photo credits: K. Nakamura-Matori The IUFRO Division 7 (Forest Health. Pathology and Entomology) Conference took place in Lisbon from the 6th to 9th September 2022, with 350 participants present (and…
On Wednesday, December 7, 2022, IEFC in collaboration with AgroParisTech Nancy and the IFSA FRANCE Association, organised an evening of discussion on participatory science tools for forests (Assessment, Issues &…
Wind Damage in Black Forest, May 2022 (Photograph: Rasoul Yousefpour) Optimizing forest allocation requires not only integration of multiple services but also take account of the multiple risks affecting forest…
The risk of introducing non-native Pests and Pathogens (PnPs) into Europe has increased exponentially since the 1800s1 . The main reasons are, on the one hand the rise in trade…
The FIRE-RES project aims to provide the EU with the capacity to manage the projected increase in forest fires under a harsher climate. It will deploy a series of innovation…
On the 28th of April 2022, a dozen participants from all over Europe gathered in Pistoia, Italy – one of the most important areas for nursery plant production – to…
After a period of relative quiet over the last couple of decades strong damaging winds returned to northern and north-western parts of Europe. A series of strong and even severe…
