Dear IUFRO Working Party on Resource Data in the Tropics: Below is Issue 2 of IUFRO News 2023, volume 52. Past editions of the newsletter can be found at: https://www.iufro.org/publications/news/electronic-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/ ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: IUFRO Headquarters &lt;office(a)iufro.org&gt; Date: Tue, Mar 7, 2023 at 3:50 PM Subject: [IUFRO Div 1] IUFRO News 2, 2023 To: Dear Reader of IUFRO News &lt;div1(a)lists.iufro.org&gt; [image: IUFRO News] Issue 2, 2023 IUFRO News 2, 2023 Dear Reader of IUFRO News: We are happy to present to you Issue 2 of IUFRO News 2023, volume 52! 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[image: Photo showing View of Stockholm by brightfreak on Pixabay] 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 <https://www.iufro.org/index.php?id=7526#c35479>…* Landscape Restoration Education Gains Importance in South Asia [image: Photo showing Screenshot taken during the workshop] 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 <https://www.iufro.org/index.php?id=7526#c35478>…* Capacity Building for FLR Implementation in Malawi [image: Photo showing forest landscape restoration. Photo provided by CASA] 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 <https://www.iufro.org/index.php?id=7526#c35477>…* Modelling Methods for Caribbean Trees 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 <https://www.iufro.org/index.php?id=7526#c35476>…* Let's Talk About Planted Forests: Tree Breeding [image: Photo showing a forest. Photo by Alex Belogub on Unsplash] 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 <https://www.iufro.org/index.php?id=7526#c35475>…* Youth Forest Policy Days (YFPD) Report 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 <https://www.iufro.org/index.php?id=7526#c35474>…* News from Members ICBR at the 15th Conference of Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity [image: Photo showing Luan Junwei, photo by Cai Chunju] 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 <https://www.iufro.org/index.php?id=7526#c35472>…* Popular Science Communicating Forest Research [image: Photo showing forest in sunlight. Rudy and Peter Skitterians on Pixabay] 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 <https://www.iufro.org/index.php?id=7526#c35471>…* Distance Learning Scholarships [image: Photo showing book and fountain pen in a tabletop. Photo by Dorothee on Pixabay] 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 <https://www.iufro.org/index.php?id=7526#c35470>…* Announcements Nominate Your Candidate for The Marcus Wallenberg Prize! 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 <https://www.iufro.org/index.php?id=7526#c35468>…* Obituary: Walter Liese (1926-2023) 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 <https://www.iufro.org/index.php?id=7526#c35467>…* Publications IUFRO 2022 in a Nutshell 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 <https://www.iufro.org/index.php?id=7526#c35465>…* New! Forest Related Nature-based Approaches: Review of Terms and Concepts – From Afforestation to Forest Landscape Restoration 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 <https://www.iufro.org/index.php?id=7526#c35464>…* IUFRO-Japan News No. 133 is Out! [image: Photo by Ikuo Ota] 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 <https://www.iufro.org/index.php?id=7526#c35463>…* Other Information More Publications <https://www.iufro.org/index.php?id=7526#c35462> Positions <https://www.iufro.org/index.php?id=7526#c35458> 21 March - International Day of Forests <https://www.iufro.org/index.php?id=7526#c35457> IUFRO Meetings <https://www.iufro.org/index.php?id=7526#c35456> Other Meetings <https://www.iufro.org/index.php?id=7526#c35455> IUFRO Website Features Noticeboard <https://www.iufro.org/discover/noticeboard/> Proceedings Archive <https://www.iufro.org/publications/proceedings/> Newsletter Archive <https://www.iufro.org/index.php?id=147> ______________________________________________ *IUFRO News Issue 2, 2023, published in early March 2023 by IUFRO Headquarters, Marxergasse 2, 1030 Vienna, Austria. 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