Featured Member of the Month
2011-01-18
Research Institute of Forests and Rangelands (RIFR) – Iran
The Research Institute of Forests and Rangelands (RIFR) – Iran was established in 1968 to carry out research covering various disciplines of renewable natural resources. The institutional framework consists of 6 research divisions and 4 research departments including:
Research Divisions
Forest, Range, Botany, Desert, Medicinal Plants, and Wood Science and Forest Products
Research Departments
Forest and Range Protection, Poplar and Fast growing trees, Biotechnology, and Mechanization.
Five supportive offices provide ways and means as well as technical assistances for a wide range of research activities, including:
Coordination of Research Affairs and Scientific Communication, Supervision and Evaluation of Research Projects, Information Technology and Computer Center, Library and the Center for Natural Resources Scientific Documents, and Public Relation and International Affairs.
In addition to the main office of RIFR in Tehran, 32 provincial research centers carry out research projects in three phytogeographical regions of Iran from north to south and east to west.
Forest Research Division (FRD)
The Forest Research Division was established in 1969 to carry out research projects on forest ecology, silviculture, forest management and socio-economic issues, biometry, forest engineering (road construction, forest harvest and wood transport), forest plantation and improvement of trees, forest soils, forest policy and economics, and forest genetics.
Research activities are distributed in different ecological (phytogeographical) regions including Euxino-Hyrcanian Forests (Caspian and Arasbaran), Irano-Turanian Forests (Zagros in West and central steppic regions), and Saharo-Sindian Forests (subtropical region of Persian Gulf and Sea of Oman, including Mangrove forests).
Why membership in IUFRO is important to RIFR
Since IUFRO facilitates the global connection and relation between Forest Research Institutes and prepares contact possibilities (World Congress, seminars, symposiums, meetings, workshops, etc.) among forest scientists all around world, it is important for us to be a member of IUFRO. Moreover, researchers have the opportunity to join different Divisions, Research Groups, and Working Parties and can exchange their knowledge and findings with each other.
RIFR main building and surroundings
Links:
- RIFR homepage: http://www.rifr-ac.ir/
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RIFR was established in 1968 to carry out research covering various disciplines of renewable natural resources.
