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IUFRO News Vol. 50, Issue 1, January 2021
IUFRO News Vol. 50, Issue 1, January 2021 Read an in-depth interview about landscape ecology, learn about SPDC forest landscape restoration trainings, find reports from recent webinars and meetings, get to know activities of IUFRO Members, and more… https://www.iufro.org/news/article/2021/01/27/iufro-news-vol-50-issue-1-january-2021/
Youth4Nature joins Youth In Landscapes Initiative
Youth4Nature joins Youth In Landscapes Initiative BONN, Germany (26 January 2021) – Youth-led international environmental organization Youth4Nature (Y4N) has just become the latest member of the Youth In Landscapes Initiative (YIL) steering committee, thus expanding both organizations’ networks while offering valuable opportunities for collaboration, mutual learning and growth. YIL is [...]
IUFRO SPOTLIGHT #86 – ANALYZING THE COMPLICATED FOREST-WATER RELATIONSHIP
IUFRO SPOTLIGHT #86 ANALYZING THE COMPLICATED FOREST-WATER RELATIONSHIP The Task Force Forests and Water Interactions in a Changing Environment examines interactions and feedbacks of forests and water in a broad context. It will evaluate the interaction between science and related policy responses concerning the decline of water values in some forest [...]
Forests in Women’s Hands
Forests in Women's Hands At the conference forest owners, practitioners, decision makers, and academics will address questions such as: Why and for whom is gender equality important? What enables or prevents gender equality from being achieved in society and organizations? What determines if interventions contribute to achieving goals? The [...]
Association GFSA: Young people committed to environmental conservation and protection
Gasy Forestry Students’ Association (GFSA) Foundation of the association For the students of ESSA-Forest, the only study produces forest engineers in Madagascar, there is a lack of exchange and development in the field outside of studies. As far as the labour market is concerned, it is obvious that there [...]
Progress amidst Pandemic: A snapshot of the Joint IUFRO-IFSA Task Force on Forest Education in 2020
Progress amidst Pandemic: A snapshot of the Joint IUFRO-IFSA Task Force on Forest Education in 2020 by Alex Onatunji and Juliet Achieng The first Global Outlook on Forest Education published at Freiburg, Germany in September 2017 summarised that “Competency needs from working life were compared to forest education curriculum [...]
IFSA SAN – “Forest perspectives 2021” desk calendar
"Forest perspectives 2021" desk calendar 12 unique photos showing different forest perspectives photos made by IFSA members or Alumni. Get your calendar for 2021 now! The progress bar below shows the percentage of stock already sold. Size/type: DIN A5 desk calendar Get your calendar [...]
Announcement of New Team for 2020/21
Dear IFSA Family, We are happy to announce that the new IFSA team for 2020/21 is now complete, and we offer our heartfelt congratulations to all the new Officials. The majority of IFSA Officials started the new term more than a month ago and have already actively begun to [...]
Official of the Month September 2020: Šimon Hrbek
Šimon is currently the Southern Europe Regional Representative and, although he has held the position for a short period of time, he has demonstrated his enthusiastic, positive and proactive attitude and his enthusiasm for expanding IFSA's reach. Simon has been actively working with his region since day one and he [...]
Second Open Call Official Positions 2020-2021
Second 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 for IFSA members, to exploring your creative side in designing for social media, [...]
Open Call Official Positions 2020-2021
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 [...]
Open Call – Caux Summer Academy on Land, Security and Climate – July 2020
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 [...]
Three pathways to strengthening safeguards for traditional knowledge
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 [...]
[OPEN CALL] Language commissioner
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 [...]