The 26th IUFRO World Congress will take place in less than one and a half years on 23-29 June 2024. Why not submit an abstract, nominate candidates for awards, get to know the Nordic and Baltic region and join the global discussion on “Forests and Society Towards 2025”? Find out more…

Educators from Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Myanmar, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Thailand gathered to discuss forest and landscape restoration education in a three-day virtual workshop. New ideas for advancing restoration education were touched upon and included issues such as developing transformative curricula with focus on solutions for restoration. More…

IUFRO and its local partner, the Centre for Applied Systems Analysis (CASA), implemented a three-year project (September 2019 - August 2022) to develop capacities on forest landscape restoration (FLR) in Malawi. The project’s aim was to scale up FLR through developing a critical mass of well-trained practitioners. More…

On 26 January 2023 another webinar was held as part of the “Forest Mensuration and Modelling Chats” organized by Research Group 4.01.00 and hosted by the University of British Columbia. The webinar series is meant to highlight forest mensuration and modelling research across a variety of research areas and allow for scientific exchange across the globe. More…

The webinar series, which is co-organized by the IEFC, the IUFRO Task Force “Resilient Planted Forest Serving Society & Bioeconomy” and the EFI Research Network on Planted Forests, continued on 13 January 2023 with an episode on tree breeding, which attracted 64 participants. More…

YFPD was a three-day digital event covering the forest sector’s multi-disciplinarity and gave the speakers and attendees a platform to share their knowledge and experience. The final report presents the primary outcomes of the YFPD 2022 for knowledge sharing, capacity building, and organizing similar events in the future. More…

As part of the UN Biodiversity Conference, ICBR hosted a hybrid side event on Bamboo Forest Biodiversity, the Ecological-Economic Complex, and Carbon Sinks, where participants gathered to discuss the interplay between bamboo, rattan and biodiversity. More…

Increasingly the scientific community is recognizing the important role of ‘storytelling’ through popular science. Purabi Bose, course leader of a new SILVA Ph.D. course, Communicating Forests and Land-Use Research in Popular Science, considers the role of the researchers in communicating science to a wider audience as an integral element of doing science. More…

Bangor University, U.K., has secured 9 Commonwealth Scholarship Commission (CSC) scholarships to award to exceptional international scholars to study either: MSc Agroforestry & Food Security or MSc Tropical Forestry via distance learning starting in September 2023. More…

The Board of the Marcus Wallenberg Foundation and its Selection Committee invite individuals and institutions, globally, to nominate candidates for the Marcus Wallenberg Prize, between 1 February and 30 April each year. More…

The IUFRO community is deeply grieved by the passing of Walter Liese, IUFRO Honorary Member and former IUFRO President. Professor Liese has had one of the longest histories of service to IUFRO, organizing and attending numerous IUFRO events. More…

Have a look at this brief annual report to review highlights and nuggets of information from IUFRO network activities throughout 2022. A full annual report will follow in spring 2023. More…

IUFRO Occasional Paper No. 36, seeks to clarify how seven common terms and concepts are used in the scientific literature, namely Nature-Based Solution, Ecosystem Based Adaptation, Integrated Landscape Management, Forest Restoration, Forest Landscape Restoration, Afforestation and Rewilding. More…

The January 2023 issue of IUFRO-Japan News features a range of interesting articles from a participation report on the All-IUFRO Conference 2022 to a report on IUFRO Okinawa 2022 "Progress in Small-scale Forestry beyond the Pandemic and Global Climate Change". More…