Call for Abstract Guideline About The International Forestry Students' Symposium (IFSS) 2025 proudly invites students and public participants from around the world to take part in the Call for Abstracts, which will culminate in the Grand Symposium of IFSS 2025. This symposium provides a platform for individuals to share research, [...]
SYMPOSIUM DAY About Symposium The symposium will serve as one of the main activities within the IFSS 2025 Indonesia program. This event will facilitate keynote speeches, plenary sessions, focus group discussions, abstract presentations, and exhibitions related to global forestry. As a step towards ensuring sustainable forest management [...]
LC Project of April 2024 Name of Project: Forestry Games Local Committee: IFSA LC Belgrade, Serbia The annual all-round event of “Forestry Games” was held by LC Belgrade, Serbia, on Monday, April 15th 2024. This lively competition brought together students from the Faculty of Forestry, the Faculty of Sports and [...]
LC Project of March 2024 Name of Project: Seedlings Care Activity Local Committee: IFSA FAMU, Uganda The Local Committee (LC) of the International Forestry Students' Association (IFSA) at Makerere University (FAMU) once again demonstrated its unwavering commitment to forest conservation and biodiversity protection through its recent Seedling Care [...]
LC Project of February 2024 Name of Project: Plastic Free Palung Local Committee: IFSA Hetauda, Nepal Hetauda, Nepal – The students of the Faculty of Forestry at the Agriculture and Forestry University, under the International Forestry Students’ Association (IFSA Hetauda), organized a three-day "Plastic Free Palung" campaign from [...]
LC Project of December 2023 Name of Project: Balkan Meeting Local Committee: IFSA SKOPS-LC This year’s Balkan Meeting was organized in Bulgaria by IFSA SKOPS-LC and took its place from October 31st-November 4th 2023. During these four days, all participants had the opportunity to familiarize themselves with the Training [...]
IFSA-Hetauda Local Congress 2024 Report INTRODUCTION Local Congress is an annual event organized by IFSA-Hetauda. It is one of the flagship events of IFSA-Hetauda. This year IFSA-Hetauda organized 2nd Local Congress with the title “Local Congress 2024” with the theme “Greening Our Future: Local Action, Global Impact”. Local Congress 2024 [...]
Why Do We Need a Mentor? A Reflection from IFSA-IUFRO Mentorship Programme “A mentor is someone who allows you to see the hope inside yourself.” — Oprah Winfrey Four years ago, I questioned whether I truly needed a mentor to guide my future career direction or not. Before the [...]
Call for Young Scientists EFI Annual Conference 2024 Interested in AI and forests? EFI is looking for Young Scientists to come and talk about their research involving AI at EFI’s Annual Conference in Bonn in September 2024. EFI is offering financial support of 1,500 euros. There's also the opportunity [...]
June 5, celebrated as World Environment Day established by the United Nations in 1972, it is the largest international environmental event with millions of people participating worldwide. It has evolved into a prominent global platform for promoting environmental awareness. It was set up to pay homage to what is considered [...]
Open Call Regional Representatives Latin America 2024/2025 Dear IFSA World, IFSA wishes to announce the open call for the position of Regional Representatives for Latin America. This is a call for enthusiastic and self-motivated individuals who will serve for the term 2024/2025 starting from September till August. Introduction IFSA [...]
Open Call: Latin America Regional Meeting Organising Committee 2025 Dear IFSA’s Latin America Region! Would you like to host the next Latin America Regional Meeting? A new opportunity is here: you can now apply to become the 2025 host and Organizing Committee (OC) of your Regional Meeting! Regional Meetings (RMs) [...]
The Report of the Major Group Led Initiative in Support of the United Nations Forum on Forests (UNFF) UN office Nairobi, March 4 to 6, 2024 Introduction The Major Group Led Initiative, a pivotal gathering under the UNFF umbrella, brings together representatives from various major groups including women, farmers [...]
My IFSA Experience Northern European Regional Meeting, Estonia, 2024 The 2024 Northern European Regional meeting (NERM) took place in Estonia from the 23rd-29th of April. It was wonderfully organised by the amazing Organising committee (OC), from the Estonian University of Life Sciences, who created an opportunity for IFSA members from [...]
The Forests Dialogue on Ecosystem Restoration Delegation Report East Kalimantan, 22–26 April 2024 I. Summary of the event On 22–26 April, 2024, TFD held its first field dialogue under the Ecosystem Restoration Initiative in East Kalimantan, Indonesia. In order to enhance biodiversity in Kalimantan, the private sector, indigenous people, [...]
