Read an interview with Professor Donald G. Hodges, Head of the Department of Forestry, Wildlife and Fisheries at the University of Tennessee, USA; IUFRO Division 4 Coordinator and Chair of the All-IUFRO Conference Scientific Committee! Find out about forest assessment, modelling and management, and more…

The conference will include six scientific plenaries that involve a panel presentation, lightning talks and associated posters, a wrap-up session focused on the connections to global change, a conference dinner, as well as a professional field trip, mentoring events, book presentations, awards, networking opportunities, and more…

The Congress Scientific Committee invites submissions of session proposals for the 2024 IUFRO World Congress. In line with the spirit of the Congress title “Forest and Society towards 2050“, the program shall highlight the forest contributions to the UN 2030 Agenda and its SDGs. Submit sessions by 13 October 2022!  More…

The symposium "Forest expansion, landscape dynamics and ecosystem services in Europe", organized by the IUFRO Landscape Working Party at the IALE 2022 European Landscape Ecology Congress, focused mostly on the existence of tradeoffs between ecosystem services and risks. More…

This Training School within the framework of the COST Action "Biodiversity of Temperate Forest Taxa Orienting Management Sustainability by Unifying Perspectives" involved IUFRO Unit 8.02.01. It provided the first practical implementation of the standardized protocol for multitaxon studies developed by the COST Action Bottoms-Up. More…

Invasive forest pathogens and climate change are threatening the health and sustainability of our forest ecosystems. Promising disease management techniques are being developed to control forest diseases which include breeding, genetics, nanotechnologies and silviculture. Read this report from the meeting "Foliar, Shoot, Stem and Rust Diseases of Trees - Forest Diseases During Global Crises" and find out more…

The webinar of IUFRO WP 8.02.03 Humus and Soil Biodiversity discussed the idea that something can still be done to stop climate change and the loss of biodiversity on our planet; and that we are all on the front line and can do something, individually and collectively. More…

The webinar in the series "Forest Mensuration and Modelling Chats" on 19 July discussed "Modelling growth of natural forests with scarce data: challenges and a proposal". Dr. Christian Salas-Eljatib, Professor at the Centre for Ecosystem Modelling and Monitoring at the Universidad Mayor, Chile, provided an overview of current efforts to build a tree-level distance-independent growth model for natural Nothofagus-dominated forests in Chile. More…

The IUFRO Ecology and silviculture of pine Working Party 1.01.10 and Centro PINUS – a Portuguese NGO focused on maritime pine – invited foresters and researchers from all over the world to join the second of their international webinar series on 13 July 2022. More…

The online conference hosted by Northeast Forestry University and North Carolina State University covered five topics: 1) Forestry and Climate Change, 2) Genomes and epigenomes, 3) Wood biology, physiology, development and uses, 4) Genomic variation in breeding and genetic studies, and 5) Regulations and biosafety of GMOs. More…

As part of the IUFRO-Mondi Partnership the first Stakeholder Dialogue Meeting was held from 9-10 June 2022 in Vienna, Austria, with 24 participants. The meeting was comprised of a half-day workshop followed by a half-day field trip to the forest. Read the key messages and more…

IUFRO Executive Director Alexander Buck was one of the speakers at an HLPF session on 5 July titled "Capacity development and partnerships to maximize the benefits of science, technology and trade for sustainable development". He addressed the question as to how partnerships and capacity building at the research-policy interface can advance science, technology, and innovation. More…

Representatives of the Global Forest Expert Panels Programme (GFEP) attended the ninth session of the Plenary of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) and its associated Stakeholder Consultations as observers. More…

Dikshya Devkota, Project Manager with the Global Forest Expert Panels Programme  (GFEP), came to Stockholm to attend the Stockholm+50 conference in late June 2022. Two years from the Stockholm+50 meeting, the city will host the XXVI IUFRO World Congress from 23-29 June 2024, under the theme "Forests and Society towards 2050". More…

Gabriela Gavarrete is a young Salvadoran biologist who is involved in restoring Cerro Tecana together with the organization Un Pulmón Más. When Gabriela presented this restoration project to the Restoration Stewards program of the Global Landscapes Forum and the Youth in Landscapes Initiative, she was selected as one of the Restoration Stewards 2022. IUFRO has been involved in the program since its inception in 2020. More…

The Resilient Future Forests Lab (RFFL) offers demonstration opportunities to support innovative solutions to address Forest Landscape Restoration and Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation challenges. IUFRO-SPDC together with several IUFRO member organizations are implementing the "Resilient Future Forests Lab" in the Kyrgyz Republic and Uzbekistan. More…

The National Institute of Forest Science (NIFoS), until 2015 known as Korea Forest Research Institute (KFRI), was founded in 1922. It is the sole national institute which carries out comprehensive research on forests, forestry and forest products to meet the diverse needs of the public and private sectors. The Institute joined IUFRO in 1976. More…

IUFRO was established on 17 August 1892 in Eberswalde, Germany, with only three members: the Association of German Forest Experiment Stations and the experiment stations of Austria and Switzerland. From that time onwards IUFRO has grown constantly to become a worldwide organization. More…

In July 2022 three webinars on EU Forest Policy were held specifically for students from the Ukraine. The webinars were jointly organized by the International Forestry Students' Association (IFSA) and IUFRO. Ukrainian students and young researchers were eligible for a competition at the end of the webinars. More…

IUFRO's Immediate Past President Professor Mike Wingfield, a professor at the University of Pretoria's (UP) Forestry and Agricultural Biotechnology Institute (FABI), is the recipient of the annual Harry Oppenheimer Fellowship Award for his research into disease-causing fungi. More…

The Policy Brief summarizes the key messages of the GFEP report "Forests, Climate, Biodiversity and People: Assessing a Decade of REDD+", and includes lessons learnt over the past ten years of REDD+ implementation, as well as outcomes of a stakeholder consultation. More…

Forests and trees play a vital role in meeting the world's increasing demand for water and need to be managed for water-related ecosystem services, according to the guide co-published by the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the International Union of Forest Research Organizations (IUFRO), the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission, the United States Forest Service and partners. More…

Although the joint EFI-IFSA-IUFRO Capacity Development Project "Global student networking and green jobs in the forest sector" already ended earlier this year, the products and information developed continue to be very valid. More…

Watch this documentary by Deutsche Welle and meet female researchers from Brazil who are committed to increasing the understanding of and knowledge about the Amazonian biome. One of them is Dr. Nathália Nascimento, an earth system scientist at the University of São Paulo, who has also worked on the Science Panel for the Amazon (SPA). More…

Thais Linhares-Juvenal, Senior Forestry Officer, and Malgorzata Buszko-Briggs, Team Leader on Outreach, Forestry Division, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, embark on a journey into how wood can help shape a healthier global economy. More…

The hunting of wild animals for their meat has been a crucial activity in the evolution of humans. It continues to be an essential source of food and a generator of income for millions of Indigenous and rural communities worldwide. If the use of wildlife resources is to continue by those who depend on it, sustainable practices must be implemented. This book has been co-authored by Robert Nasi (CIFOR-ICRAF), who is an IUFRO officeholder. More…