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IUFRO NEWS 10, 2020
Dear IUFRO Officeholder: We are happy to present to you issue 10 of IUFRO News 2020, volume 49. Although many IUFRO activities and events scheduled for 2020 had to be postponed to 2021 or even cancelled, we are encouraged by the extraordinary level of communication that continues among IUFRO units via email, social media and online conferencing. These activities, along with your continued communications with IUFRO Headquarters, keep our global network thriving despite the uncertainties of these times. For this, we are most grateful. IUFRO News Issue 10 is also available for download as a PDF or Word file at: https://www.iufro.org/publications/news/electronic-news/ You are welcome to share this newsletter with your colleagues and publish the link on your organization's website!
Best wishes,
Alexander Buck
IUFRO Executive Director
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PUTTING ECOSYSTEM RESTORATION FIRST
UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration – A Global Call to Action
The UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration is a rallying call for the protection and revival of ecosystems all around the world, for the benefit of people and nature.Only with healthy ecosystems can we enhance people's livelihoods, counteract climate change, and stop the collapse of biodiversity. More…
New: French Edition of IUFRO's Forest Landscape Restoration (FLR) Practitioner's Guide
The guide edited by John Stanturf, Stephanie Mansourian and Michael Kleine, is comprised of separate modules that address important aspects of FLR implementation. A must-read for anyone who implements FLR in a specific country or local context! More…
Guidelines and Policy Brief for Forest Landscape Restoration in the Tropics
From the very start IUFRO has been a key partner in the preparation of these guidelines published by the International Tropical Timber Organization (ITTO), which aim at helping policymakers, practitioners, community-based organizations and others to put FLR into practice in the field.. More…
Forest Landscape Restoration Initiative in Malawi among First GLFx Chapters
The GLF Biodiversity Digital Conference "One World - One Health" on 28 and 29 October 2020 put the spotlight on ecosystem restoration. During the conference so-called GLFx Chapters were launched. These are independently organized local initiatives, which foster action on the ground. IUFRO supported the establishment of the GLFx Malawi Chapter. More…
Restoring the Earth - The Next Decade
Launched on 28 October at the GLF Digital Conference, the latest edition of Unasylva outlines a series of new restoration initiatives and programs, including of IUFRO, that are increasing funding, empowering local stakeholders and enhancing technical assistance for forest and landscape restoration. More…
FORESTS, WILDLIFE AND COVID-19
The COVID-19 Challenge: Zoonotic Diseases and Wildlife
The Collaborative Partnership on Sustainable Wildlife Management (CPW), of which IUFRO is a member, has elaborated four guiding principles to reduce risk from zoonotic diseases and build more collaborative approaches in human health and wildlife management. The statement was launched on 16 October 2020. More…
Towards Sustainability - Forest Solutions in Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic
In a joint statement launched on 12 October, the Collaborative Partnership on Forests (CPF) urges everyone to turn the historic challenge of COVID-19 into an opportunity for forestry and sustainability. More…
The Need to Improve Forest Education
Do we know enough about the world's forests to take care of them properly? There is growing international concern over the quality and availability of training and education needed both to prepare those, whose daily work and decisions most closely impact the sustainable management of forests, and to inform new generations who will look after forest resources in the future. More…
Forests and Trees are Critical to Global Efforts to End Poverty
A comprehensive scientific assessment report of the IUFRO-led Global Forest Expert Panel (GFEP) on Forests and Poverty was successfully launched online on 15 October 2020 just before the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty. More…
REPORTS FROM IUFRO MEETINGS
Towards a Forest Bio-economy Inclusive of Social and-or Ecological Value Added
This IUFRO conference entitled "The social and ecological value added of small-scale forestry to the bio-economy" was held online on 7-8 October 2020 hosted by EURAC Research, Bolzano, Italy. More…
Behavioral and Chemical Ecology of Forest Insects
IUFRO Working Party 7.03.16 - Behavioral and Chemical Ecology of Forest Insects has organized a most successful series of webinars that have also been recorded. The series offers five talks covering a wide range of topics related to behavioral and chemical ecology of forest insects. More…
NEWS FROM IUFRO MEMBERS
The MEDLENTISK Project
INRGREF (IUFRO Member in Tunisia) and its five partners are pleased to announce the launch of the MEDLENTISK project, a Mediterranean Partnership to Improve and Exchange Scientific and Practical Knowledge on Lentisk Tree Oil. More…
FPAC Partnership Award to Ellen Macdonald, University of Alberta, Canada, for EMEND Project
In the course of the 100th anniversary of National Forest Week in September, the Forest Products Association of Canada (FPAC) announced the recipients of its annual Awards of Excellence program. More…
PUBLICATIONS
IUFRO Spotlight #83 - Examining the Economic Drivers of Wildfire: Where There's Smoke, There's Finance
"The world is ablaze. Or so it seems, and the scenario is repeating itself every year now," says Dr. François-Nicolas Robinne, of the University of Alberta's Department of Renewable Resources, and Coordinator of IUFRO's Fire$: Economic Drivers of Global Wildland Fire Activity Task Force. More…
Forest and Rangeland Soils of the United States Under Changing Conditions
This open access book by USDA Forest Service (IUFRO Member) researchers synthesizes leading-edge science and management information about forest and rangeland soils of the United States. It offers ways to better understand changing conditions and their impacts on soils, and explores directions that positively affect the future of forest and rangeland soil health. More…
New: Guía de Emprendimiento Forestal - 'Forest Entrepreneurship Guide'
A Spanish-language Forest Entrepreneurship Guide was launched on 7 October 2020 during the Latin American Education Seminar to promote rural entrepreneurship. The Joint IUFRO-IFSA Task Force on Forest Education was a partner in developing this guide published by Reforestamos México. More…
Further Publications
New Exogenous Application of Chemicals for Protecting Plants Against Ambient Ozone Pollution: What Should Come Next? / Rediscovering the Contributions of Forests and Trees to Transition Global Food Systems / Achieving Sustainable Management of Tropical Forests / Forest Sector Workforce in the UNECE Region... More...
Journals and Paper Invitations
A special Issue of Botany has been published on the basis of the Technical Session entitled "Complex interactions of mistletoe, ecosystems, and people", which was held during the 2019 IUFRO World Congress in Curitiba, Brazil. More…
PARTICIPATE!
Photo Contest to Celebrate International Mountain Day
Did you know that half of the world's biodiversity hotspots are found in mountains? Help to celebrate this extraordinary mountain biodiversity by entering the FAO photo contest for International Mountain Day on 11 December and you could win an action camera! More…
Global Survey: SDG Priorities in Mountains
Do you live or work in mountains and work on regional or sustainable development? If so, you are invited to participate in this survey, which is open until 15 December. More…
Survey: Collaborative Research for Data Collection on Pterocarpus erinaceus (African Rosewood)
Sheila Ward, Deputy Coordinator of IUFRO WP 1.02.04 Sustainable management and genetic resources in Meliaceae, invites anyone who has information on this important but endangered species to fill out a google form on ECOWAS-PARI. More… |
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