News from IFSA’s local committees around the globe!
LC Project of November 2022 LC Project of the Month November 2022 is awarded to IFSA LC Universitas Gadjah Mada (UGM) from Indonesia for this recurring collaborative project I-CON. The possibility to get together to discuss and find solutions for different issues is one of the many advantages [...]
An Online Discussion: Do the Young Generation Still Want to be a Farmer? In Collaboration with Forest and Society Research Group Forest and Society is an international journal managed by the Forestry Faculty of Universitas Hasanuddin led by Prof. Dr. forest Alif K. Sahide. S.Hut., M.Si. On 22 September [...]
With the motive of giving practical insights into the forestry field to forestry undergraduates, a workshop and field training entitled "Interactive session and workshop on Forest Inventory and Data Collection" was conducted at the Institute of Forestry, Pokhara, dated from 11th June to 14th June 2022. The program was [...]
Author: Elias Vogel As an annual event, the two LCs from Switzerland (Bern and Zürich ) came together for a joint activity. The event on the 9th of July, 2022 was organized by LC Bern. The plan was to hike from Villeret, a small village in the Bernese Jura, [...]
Report on Celebrating World Environment Day by IFSA HETAUDA On the occasion of World Environment Day, IFSA-HETAUDA conducted a Rally, Cleanness, Awareness and Plantation program. We cleaned the environment of the main spotted area of Hetauda (Hupra Chaur) in the morning and also [...]
IFSA Local Committee Data Collection Hello IFSA family! The Membership Department needs YOUR help to gather information about our Local Committees Although IFSA has been around for over 30 years, the actual statistics of our member distribution still remains a mystery 🤔. And as the IFSA family grows larger [...]
The department of Forest and Wood Science, Faculty of AgriSciences, Stellenbosch University, hosted a ‘First Year Braai’ for Forest and Wood Science freshman students. As a tradition, SFSA hosts a "First Year Braai" for freshman students with the support from the department. It was held at the Paul Sauer [...]
IFSA Palencia Celebrates an Event to Introduce IUFOR Researching Topics to Students by Aitor Vázquez Veloso, IFSA Palencia President On November 24th, LC IFSA Palencia (Spain) hosted an event where the students had the opportunity to know the topics researched at University Institute of Sustainable Forest Management (iuFOR) groups. [...]
Germany Meeting Göttingen 2021 In October 2021, the German LCs held their annual IFSA Germany Meeting which was the first IFSA in-person meeting since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic! For four days, 22 participants from five German LCs and LCs from Denmark, Serbia and Estonia met in Göttingen [...]
On July 28th IFSA-KOREA had a meeting with the LC WARSAW from Poland. The meeting was aimed to share each other’s forest management, plants & animals and about university. It was interesting to know the differences, and was a good chance for participants to broaden their view and learn. [...]
Southern Europe Elections & Regional Awards Online Southern European Regional Meeting took place between 6-9 May with an amazing program thanks to great efforts of the Organizing Committee from LC Thessaloniki, Greece. During the 4-day program, there were panel discussions organized with the topic of the meeting “Recovery through Biodiversity” [...]
The IFSA Southern African Region taking part in the FOREST21 project, which involves five universities in South Africa, two from Finland, and one from Norway. Southern Africa Forestry has initiated a project that is a collaboration between South Africa, Norway, and Finland and focuses on building capacity in forestry higher [...]
We all know that connecting with nature is important. Great Backyard Bird Counting (GBBC) 2021 is the opportunity for us to enjoy the beautiful little things while walking through the forest trail or river side or watching the backyard through the window. [...]
Webinar LATAM Last January 27th and 28th, the Latin America region organized a webinar called "Perspectives of forestry sector for 2021 in Latin America" where each Local Committee invited a professional of the sector to give their point of view. As Regional Representatives, Jazmín López and Yamile Sánchez, are [...]
It is very rarely do we derive the opportunity to learn about the biodiversity and culture of two areas very distinctly. The month of November 2020, however, showed us a glimpse of that when two local Committees of the two megadiverse countries, India and Mexico, [...]
