Closer to Nature Forest Management

The ThinkForest Seminar ‘Closer to Nature Forest Management’ will take place online on 6 April 2022. ThinkForest event asks:

• What are the current pressures on forest biodiversity in managed forests as well as on forests’ health and resilience?
• What kind of existing nature-based forest management approaches are there - and what is their ability to support biodiversity, stability and adaptability to uncertain future conditions?
• What could be the guiding principles and framework for flexible European-wide implementation of Closer-to-Nature Forest Management?
• What are the barriers and opportunities for its implementation?  

Background: Closer to Nature Forest Management is a concept proposed in the EU Forest Strategy for 2030. The idea is to provide a vision and direction for managed forests in Europe which improves their conservation values as well as their climate resilience. The EU Forest Strategy also proposes developing a definition and adopting guidelines for closer to nature practices, as well as developing a voluntary closer-to-nature forest management certification scheme.

Join us and register at:

https://efi.int/policysupport/thinkforest/closer_to_nature_forest_management

The ThinkForest forum is a high-level science-policy discussion and information sharing forum on the future of European forest-based sector coordinated by European Forest Institute.