The Integrate Network congratulates the German Research Institute for Post-Mining Landscapes (FIB) for winning first place in the “Wissen der Vielen – Research Award for Citizen Science 2025”. The award honours outstanding scientific achievements in the use of Citizen Science approaches. FIB’s project “PlanBirke plus C – Citizens Explore Forest Change” convinced the jury with...
Marteloscopes are a key tool of the Integrate Network Multi-Donor-Trust-Fund. Since the start of Integrate + in 2013, the network’s forerunner project*, this didactic training tool has expanded to more than 270 sites in 27 countries, enabling the recording of more than 100,000 individual tree observations. This number is continuously increasing. In each marteloscope, every...
Our collaboration project TRANSFORMIT, aims to identify forestry enterprises in Europe that are practicing integrative forest management (IFM). Are there such enterprises in your region? If yes, please contact them, so they can be included in the project! In TRANSFORMIT, IFM is defined as an approach that aims at integrating biodiversity conservation and global change adaptation into...
A new peer-reviewed paper looks at how silvicultural training sites, namely marteloscopes, can support dialogue and deliberate communication in times of conflict. As a collaborative effort, the study was led by FVA (Forest Research Institute Baden-Wuerttemberg) and co-authored by researchers from the European Forest Institute as part of Martelkom project. In recent years, climate change...
Is early browning in European forests a harbinger of tree death or simply a sign of temporary stress? In 2018, science could not answer this question. But one thing was clear: the frequency of extreme events, including droughts, had increased after the hot summer of 2003. Even though droughts also occurred during the last century,...
Dauerwald trotzt dem Klimawandel Auswirkungen naturnaher Waldwirtschaft auf Beobachtungsflächen untersucht Der naturnah bewirtschaftete, gemischte Dauerwald könnte sich im Klimawandel gegenüber dem traditionell bewirtschafteten Altersklassenwald als erfolgversprechenderer Ansatz erweisen. Anlass zu dieser Einschätzung geben die Untersuchungsergebnisse des vom Bundesministerium für Ernährung und Landwirtschaft geförderten wissenschaftlichen Projektes „Dauerwald“. Die Projektbeteiligten der Arbeitsgemeinschaft Naturgemäße Waldwirtschaft Deutschland e. V....
The current Integrate Chair, Michel Leytem, was invited to the Forest Europe High-Level Policy Dialogue on 9 November in Berlin. Together with Alessandra Stefani (Director General of Italy), Þröstur Eysteinsson (EUFORGEN representative), and Juha S. Niemelä (EUSTAFOR representative), Boris Erg (IUCN European office representative) and Marcus Lindner (EFI senior researcher), they built the the high-profile...
The European Union recently published new guidelines to “to promote biodiversity-friendly and adaptive forest management as part of a common framework for closer-to-nature forest management“.Although it is relatively common in Central Europe, it has been sparsely adopted in Southern Europe and remains limited to local experiences. The activities of the LIFE GoProForMED project converge with what is hoped for by the...
24 October 2023 from 10:00 – 11:30 CETOnline in Zoom Register via www.eventbrite.fi/e/implementing-closer-to-nature-forest-management-tickets-723375053257 Closer-to-Nature Forest Management is a concept proposed in the EU Forest Strategy for 2030. The idea is to provide a vision and direction for managed forests in Europe which improves their conservation values as well as their climate resilience. The EU Forest...
Today forests are under increasing pressure: on one side society increasing demand for productivity and multipurpose use on the other increasing pressure from climatic extremes and intensification of disturbance. There is now a growing need for integrated approach to forest management and for close-to-nature solutions to enable the multipurpose value of our forest and to...
