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XXV IUFRO World Congress 2019
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International Year of Forests 2011
Celebrating Forests for People
Key Forest Related events in 2010/ 2011
Ninth Session of the United Nations Forum on Forests (UNFF9);
UNHQ NY, United States; 24 January – 4 February 2011
XXIII IUFRO World Congress
Forests for the Future: Sustaining Society and the Environment
23-28 August 2010, Seoul, Republic of Korea
Download the presentations of Plenary and Sub-plenary Sessions
The need to promote multipurpose forest ecosystem management by taking into account ecological and economic considerations as well as societal needs was emphasised at the Nanning Conference.
The "Global Forest Expert Panels" (GFEP) initiative of the Collaborative Partnership on Forests (CPF) has established an Expert Panel on Biodiversity, Forest Management, and REDD+.
Multipurpose forest ecosystem management, silviculture in tropical forests and transboundary conservation of endangered tree species are major topics of the January issue of IUFRO News.
Eberswalde University for Sustainable Development, the place where IUFRO was founded in 1892, is the 'greenest' University in Brandenburg, Germany.