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Volunteer, grow, and learn together with IFSA’s Officials! - 35+ positions open for application! Open Call IFSA Official positions 2020/21 IFSA Officials volunteer to commit one year of their student- or young professional career in contributing to the IFSA Network. This can take many forms: from being the FAO representative [...]
Greetings everyone ! IFSA has been invited to attend the Caux Summer Academy on Land, Security and Climate meeting in Geneva, Switzerland between 1-5th of July 2020. The topic for the event is: The connection between land, security and climate. More information about the event and program can be found [...]
Promoting Indigenous Peoples and local communities’ (IPLC) ownership over traditional knowledge is essential to upholding rights and building resilience in the face of increasingly complex and intense environmental problems. But exploitative appropriation of traditional knowledge remains pervasive, in part due to the lack of comprehensive, multi-level, participatory governance frameworks. But pathways [...]
Dear IFSA Family The Language Sub-Commission is excited to announce that we are looking for new commissioners! What is the Language Sub-Commission? As the largest global students’ association for forestry and environmental studies, diversity is one of our main strengths when it comes to providing a platform to discuss [...]
IFSA’s Web Commission is happy to announce that the new website for IFSA has been published!The story of this new website started during Interim 2019 when we realised that we needed more features on our website. So, we did a brainstorming workshop to get ideas and drafted a website plan [...]
International Forestry Students Association delegation to the APCW 2019 As we continue to grow our network and enhance our impact as youth in the academia holding a vision of “a world that appreciates forests’’, we are pleased to share with you the successful presence of our delegation at the Asia-Pacific [...]
[Freiburg, Germany, August 29th, 2019] – Several representatives of the International Forestry Students’ Association (IFSA) were invited by the United Nations to join the first ever UN Youth Climate Action Summit in New York City on Saturday, September 21st. As a matter of fact, 6 outstanding IFSA members were chosen [...]
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Peatlands are one of the most valuable wetland ecosystems on Earth, critical from the point of view of climate change. They provide a wide range of ecosystem services ranging from safe drinking water, protection from flood risks and global biodiversity conservation. Covering nearly 3% of the global land surface and [...]
What makes a difference in each individual’s life? - Purpose and Impact. Be inspired with the story of a forestry student who had his first international travel experience at age 16 and has traveled to 20 countries in less than 4 years. Alex Onatunji (North African Regional representative) conducted this [...]
On the 8th of April 2019, I appeared at US consulate General in Chengdu China for visa interview with much pressure as it was quite challenging to get an US visa. However, I crossed the milestone with good news and was on my way already. I was super excited to [...]
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The seventh session of the Intergovernmental Science-policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem services (IPBES 7); was the first Science-policy interface conference I ever attended! I was one of International Forestry Student Association delegation. It is my most memorable experience! IPBES aims to assess the state of biodiversity and of the [...]
Being an observer at the Intergovernmental Plenary session on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES7) was an awesome experience. It was a great privilege to learn and meet a network of equally passionate scholars, researchers and environmental enthusiasts. In addition, this experience was the closest I have been to a science [...]
