Dear IUFRO Working Party on Resource Data in the Tropics:

 

Below is Issue 7 of IUFRO News 2026, volume 55. Past editions of the newsletter can be found at: https://www.iufro.org/iufro-news

 

Regards,

Sheila Ward

Coordinator

IUFRO WP 4.02.01 - Resource data in the tropics

https://www.iufro.org/science/divisions/division-4/40000/40200/40201/



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News from IUFRO

Restoring Forest Landscapes: Celebrating Success in Malawi

Restoring Forest Landscapes: Celebrating Success in Malawi

In early June, the Centre for Applied Systems Analysis (CASA), an IUFRO Member Organization, held two Open…

Knowledge-sharing workshop highlights role of field sites in forest landscape restoration

Knowledge-sharing workshop highlights role of field sites in forest landscape restoration

Antigua and Santa Lucía Cotzumalguapa, Guatemala, 23-26 June 2026 – A knowledge-sharing workshop titled "Common Ground: Field Demonstration…

WoodPoP Dara Hall of Fame Open

WoodPoP Dara Hall of Fame Open

The WoodPoP Dara Award 2026 celebrates outstanding achievements in timber architecture and engineering at pan-European level. The first…

Call for Bids for Hosting the XXVIII IUFRO World Congress in 2034

Call for Bids for Hosting the XXVIII IUFRO World Congress in 2034

IUFRO Member Organizations that wish to host the XXVIII IUFRO World Congress in 2034 in their country are invited to submit their bids until…

IUFRO at the 10th FOREST EUROPE Ministerial Conference 2026

IUFRO at the 10th FOREST EUROPE Ministerial Conference 2026

More than 130 participants, including ministers, state secretaries, policymakers, researchers, international organizations, observer…

Launch of Science and Timber Construction Alliance

Launch of Science and Timber Construction Alliance

Under the leadership of climate scientist Hans Joachim Schellnhuber (IIASA), the Science and Timber Construction Alliance (SITCA) was…

Advancing DEI in Practice

Advancing DEI in Practice

Following the adoption of the IUFRO Guiding Principles on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) in 2025, work has…

IUFRO Mentorship Initiative (Pilot 2026): Following the Journey

IUFRO Mentorship Initiative (Pilot 2026): Following the Journey

Since its launch earlier this year, the IUFRO Mentorship Initiative (Pilot 2026) has moved into its most important phase:…

Branching out - Season 3, Episode 5, June 2026


Raised to Solve Problems

The fifth episode of Season 3 of Branching Out: The Forest Podcast focuses on the IUFRO Task Force Stand Complexity in Planted ForestsTask Force co-leads Christophe Orazio, Institut Européen de la Forêt Cultivée (IEFC), France, and Tim Payn, Bioeconomy Science Institute Maiangi Taiao, New Zealand, talk with IFSA co-host Clarissa Chimeremeze Enyi, Nigeria, and IUFRO about the resilience and value of planted forests, and the need to address common misconceptions.

Tune in to Branching Out: the forest podcast! Listen on Spotify and Apple Podcasts!

Event announcements

Webinar: Visualizing Individual Tree Characteristic

Webinar: Visualizing Individual Tree Characteristic

IUFRO Working Party 4.01.07 "Tree Growth, Mortality, and Remote Sensing" is pleased to invite you to the…

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in Forest Technology Webinar

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in Forest Technology Webinar

Welcome to the Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in Forest Technology Webinar, where the future of forestry meets advanced data…

34th International Mechanical Pulping Conference (IMPC 2026)

34th International Mechanical Pulping Conference (IMPC 2026)

The 34th International Mechanical Pulping Conference (IMPC 2026) will be held from 8 to 11 October (CST, China Standard Time) 2026 in Nanjing,…

7th International Symposium of Forest Engineering and Technologies - FETEC 2026

7th International Symposium of Forest Engineering and Technologies - FETEC 2026

Digital Transformation in Forest Engineering 4.0 and Beyond: Artificial Intelligence and Information Systems…

Green the City - Grow the Future

Green the City - Grow the Future

How can we make our cities greener, more liveable and truly sustainable? This is the question that the 'Green the City - Grow the Future'…

All-Division 4 Conference: Beyond Stability: Forest Assessment, Modelling and Management for an uncertain future

All-Division 4 Conference: Beyond Stability: Forest Assessment, Modelling and Management for an uncertain future

Beyond Stability: Forest Assessment, Modelling and Management for an Uncertain Future” is an IUFRO conference encompassing the full scope of…

Bioeconomy as a Common Context for Forests: IUFRO Task Force at UNFF21


IUFRO's Task Force T50, "Building an Integrated Vision of the Forest-Based Sector within a Bioeconomy,” was represented at the twenty-first session of the UN Forum on Forests (UNFF21) in New York, 11–15 May 2026, by Herrick Fox (UC Berkeley).

The bioeconomy thread at the session ran through the Country and Organization-Led Initiative on Sustainable Forest-based Bioeconomy Approaches (COLI), led by Austria with Australia, Finland, Japan, Türkiye, FAO and IUFRO. At its side event, "Vienna Call for Action: The Power of Forest-Based Bioeconomy," IUFRO launched its expanded Policy Brief, Advancing Forest-Based Bioeconomy Approaches. The initiative's science-led think-tank work is to be led by IUFRO through its bioeconomy Task Force, which places T50 close to the question the session kept circling.

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Event reports

Impacts of World War II on Finnish Forestry and Forest Policy

Impacts of World War II on Finnish Forestry and Forest Policy

On 18 May 2026, the IUFRO Task Force on Post-Conflict Forest Landscape Restoration held a webinar titled…

SSAFR2026: The 21st Symposium on Systems Analysis in Forest Resources

SSAFR2026: The 21st Symposium on Systems Analysis in Forest Resources

The SSAFR2026 on May 17-21, 2026, in San Sebastián/Donostia, Basque Country, Spain, was the 21st of a series of symposiums on…

2026 SILVA Network Annual Conference: Co-operation in higher forest education – from open educational materials to joint curricula and degrees

2026 SILVA Network Annual Conference: Co-operation in higher forest education – from open educational materials to joint curricula and degrees

The conference in Bern, Switzerland, on 18-20 May 2026 focused on Co-operation in higher forest…

2nd International Sorb Tree Conference

2nd International Sorb Tree Conference

"Everything you always wanted to know about the service tree"   From 19-21 June 2026, experts from six European countries…

Silviculture of spruce - experiences from Canada and Sweden

Silviculture of spruce - experiences from Canada and Sweden

Spruce species are one of the most important species in the boreal/nemoboreal zone. A webinar on 28 May 2026,…

Discover Tropical Forest Operations Summer School

Discover Tropical Forest Operations Summer School

Kasetsart University in Bangkok, Thailand, hosted a summer school on tropical forest operations on 15-19 June 2026. The event, which was…

IUFRO Forest Carbon "3S" TF Webinar: Biomass and Carbon Substitution


On June 2nd, 2026, the IUFRO Task Force-Interaction and Synergy of Carbon "3S" (Sink, Storage and Substitution) in Forest Value Chains (Forest Carbon "3S") convened its second international webinar of the year, themed "Biomass and Carbon Substitution”. The event brought together 70+ leading researchers, practitioners, and policymakers from multiple continents to examine the climate change mitigation potential of wood-based products and rigorous methodologies for quantifying carbon impacts in the built environment. The webinar was co-hosted by the Carbon Footprints journal and IUFRO WP 5.12.01 – Life Cycle Analysis of Forest Products, underscoring the growing interdisciplinary attention to biomass substitution as a forest carbon solution. 

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Event reports continued

24th International Nondestructive Testing and Evaluation (NDTE) of Wood Symposium

24th International Nondestructive Testing and Evaluation (NDTE) of Wood Symposium

The 24th International Nondestructive Testing and Evaluation of Wood Symposium was hosted by the Department of Sustainable…

17th IUFRO International Christmas Tree Research and Extension Conference

17th IUFRO International Christmas Tree Research and Extension Conference

The IUFRO CTRE conference is a biennial event that brings together international researchers and industry professionals to discuss Christmas…

28th European Forum on Urban Forestry 2026

28th European Forum on Urban Forestry 2026

The 28th European Forum on Urban Forestry (EFUF) took place in Malmö, Sweden, under the theme "Diversity in Urban Forestry –…

Seed Orchards 2026

Seed Orchards 2026

The Seed Orchards conference on May 18-22, 2026, which brought a total of 73 participants from Korea, China, Canada, Türkiye, Austria,…

Other announcements

Call for Wood Champions

Call for Wood Champions

Are you doing extraordinary things with wood? The Grow the Solution campaign is looking for makers pushing sustainable wood into unexpected…

Call for Evaluators – Join the DP-FOBI Evaluator Pool

Call for Evaluators – Join the DP-FOBI Evaluator Pool

Call for Evaluators: DP-FOBI Doctoral ProgrammeThe University of Eastern Finland invites experts to join the evaluator…

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