Read the latest issue of IUFRO-Japan News and learn more about the IUFRO World Congress to be held on 23-29 June 2024 in Stockholm, Sweden, IUFRO Research Group 3.08.00 and many other interesting things.

The UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration is a rallying call for the protection and revival of ecosystems all around the world, for the benefit of people and nature. It aims to halt the degradation of ecosystems, and restore them to achieve global goals. Only with healthy ecosystems can we enhance people’s livelihoods, counteract climate change, and stop the collapse of biodiversity. The UN Decade runs from 2021 through 2030, which is also the deadline for the Sustainable Development Goals and the timeline scientists have identified as the last chance to prevent catastrophic climate change. Led by the United Nations Environment Programme and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, The UN Decade is building a strong, broad-based global movement to ramp up restoration and put the world on track for a sustainable future. That will include building political momentum for restoration as well as thousands of initiatives on the ground. Through communications, events and a dedicated web platform, the UN Decade will provide a hub for everyone interested in restoration to find projects, partners, funding and the knowledge they need to make their restoration efforts a success.

Find out about IUFRO activities at the Climate COP in Baku and the Biodiversity COP in Cali. Learn about the latest Teaming up 4 Forests webinar and a new European wood policy paper.

Applications are invited for a temporary post of a Post-doctoral Research Fellow Level 2 within UCD School of Agriculture and Food Science.

The ClosertoNatureFor project aims to review the concept of Closer-To-Nature Forest Management, understand what it means in an Irish context and determine the extent to which it is being practised in Ireland. It will do so by conducting a review of forest types/management practices, in conjunction with stakeholders, that could be considered to align with the EU guidelines on Closer-to-Nature Forest Management. The project will also identify the barriers and enabling factors to the uptake of Closer-to-Nature Forest Management in Ireland.

This is an advanced research focused role, building on the applicant's prior experience as a post-doctoral fellow, where you will conduct a specified programme of research supported by research training under the supervision and direction of a Principal Investigator.

The primary purpose of the role is to develop new or advanced research skills and competences, on the processes of publication in peer-reviewed academic publications and scholarly dissemination, the development of funding proposals, and the supervision and mentorship of graduate students along with the opportunity to develop your skills in research led teaching.

The international conference "The Forest factor" was held in Rome, Italy, on 6 and 7 June 2023, at the Roma Tre University, with the aim of placing the emphasis on the protection of forests, as an essential element in the fight against climate change, and on their vital importance for biodiversity, the carbon, water and energy cycles on a planetary scale.

Tropical forests are an important regulator of global climate, a natural carbon sink, and a repository of terrestrial biomass and diversity. Tropical forests are also home and provide livelihoods to millions of people living within or around them. Despite their tremendous social, economic, and ecological value, tropical forests remain under threat. From 1990 to 2020, 90% of the 420 million hectares of deforested land was in tropical regions.

The major causes of deforestation have shifted over time. Increasing local populations and small-scale agriculture drove forest loss in the 1980s and 1990s, whereas large-scale agriculture, plantations, and ranching are now the primary drivers of deforestation. The remaining tracts and fragments of forest are increasingly vulnerable to other factors, including further development and road construction, wildfires, poachers, illegal logging and mining, climate change, as well as new pathogens and invasive species. Many of these factors act synergistically to further degrade forest structure and function.

Due to the critical role of tropical forests in global socio-economic-ecological systems and the threats they are facing across the world, two of the most important international negotiations are taking place in the tropics in the 2024-2025 biennial: the Convention on Biological Diversity (COP16) in Cali, Colombia, and the UN Conference on Climate Change (COP30) in Belém, Brazil. While these negotiations are driving developments in environmental governance at the global scale, emerging movements in landscape and jurisdictional approaches and rights-based approaches to land management are reshaping forest governance at subnational scales.

For more than 30 years, the Yale Chapter of the International Society of Tropical Foresters (ISTF) Conference has promoted a space for exchange amongst world-class scientists, policy makers, and other practitioners. The ISTF 2025 Conference seeks to explore how research and policy discourses on forest governance at multiple geographic scales are treating and impacting tropical forests.

Join the 2025 Summer School on Ambrosia Symbiosis!

The Gund Institute for Environment at the University of Vermont (UVM) currently seeks exceptional PhD applicants to join the university to conduct interdisciplinary research on global environmental challenges beginning in the fall 2025 semester. Applications are due January 5, 2025.

Driven by the belief that research should inspire action, we explore environmental issues at the interface of five pressing research themes—climate solutions, health and well-being, sustainable agriculture, resilient communities, and equity and justice—in partnership with government, industry, and broader society.

Students will receive up to four years of funding, including an annual stipend of $35,000, plus tuition. All students are eligible for health insurance and additional funds for conference travel and research costs.