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Biodiversity | Environment | Forestry | News 2026

Ireland: First Forest Biodiversity Workshop held at the new Community Woodland in Tuamgraney – East Clare
Byadmin 06/08/202606/08/2026

Irish Integrate Network representative, Jonathan Spazzi (Teagasc), shares exciting news about an interesting new project that he’s been working on this year with the Tuamgraney Development Association (local community group) and local environmental NGOs. “I was originally involved with the development of this community woodland as a consultant forester though the Neighbourhood years ago,” says…

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Biodiversity | Environment | Marteloscope | News 2026

Mooswald Marteloscope: Forest Management Discussions and Training Visions for the Future
Byadmin 29/04/202616/06/2026

On Thursday, April 23, Dominik Saladin from Forst Baden-Württemberg visited with three foresters in training (Benedikt Debes, Louise Harms and Daniel Zeggl) the Freiburg City Forest Enterprise and there the Mooswald with the forest district manager Markus Müller, who is also the managing director of the WaldHaus Freiburg. Dominik being Deputy Forest Head for the Southern Black Forest…

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From Indicators to Action – Bridging Science, Policy and Practice in Forest Restoration and Integrative Forest Management

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Biodiversity | Environment | event | Forestry | Marteloscope | News 2026

How can a tool like the “Index of Biodiversity Potential” spread more widely?
Byadmin 22/04/202616/06/2026

From 15–16 April, 30 forest practitioners, researchers, and representatives from 12 European countries gathered in Binzen, Germany, for a very special two-day workshop – the first-ever “Train the Trainers” event on IBP, organised by the Integrate Network in collaboration with the EU Horizon TRANSFORMIT Project. We specifically invited a small group of participants to allow…

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Training on tree microhabitats for the National Forest Inventory enters practice
Byadmin 14/04/202616/06/2026

By Lenka Lehnerová, Integrate Network member representative from Czech Republic On 24 March 2026, the final training session on tree microhabitats for staff of the Czech National Forest Inventory (NFI), carried out by the Czech Forestry Institute (NLI), took place – marking an important step towards integrating biodiversity-related indicators into large-scale forest monitoring. Starting this year,…

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Applications Open: Summer School – Forests for the Future
Byadmin 20/03/202616/06/2026

Applications are now open for the Summer School “Forests for the Future: Strategies for Carbon Sequestration”! Date: 16–21 August 2026 Location: Congressi Stefano Franscini at Monte Verità, Ascona, Switzerland Application Deadline: 30 April 2026 The Summer School is organized by the ETH-Domain Joint Initiative SCENE – Swiss Center of Excellence on Net Zero Emissions, the TriNational…

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Biodiversity | Environment | Forestry | News 2026

International Day of Forests: “Sustainable forest management combines resource use and biodiversity conservation”
Byadmin 20/03/202616/06/2026

The BOKU article for the International Day of Forests, written in German and accessible here, highlights how sustainable forest management can reconcile wood production, climate protection, and biodiversity conservation, using the Austrian Living Lab Wegscheid as a real-world testbed for new integrative practices. It showcases how integrative forest management approaches – such as ecological landscape…

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International Women’s Day: Who are the women shaping our network?
ByRahel Könen 08/03/202616/06/2026

Women’s voices are not optional in forest management – they are essential for its future. By bringing women’s expertise into integrative forest management, we can unlock knowledge that better balances biodiversity, production, and social needs. When women are at the table, forest governance becomes more legitimate and democratic – reflecting the realities of all those who depend on and care for…

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Measuring and estimating carbon stocks and biodiversity potential in forests: exploring new tools
BySilvester Boonen 05/03/202616/06/2026

By Silvester Boonen, with Jonas Simons, Yannick De Win and Raghav Sharma In Belgium, we say, “meten is weten”, which translates to measuring is knowing. That idea quietly guided us on a crisp January morning in the Sonian Forest, where local researchers, forest managers, and practitioners gathered for a training event organised within the context…

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Five Students, One Mission: To Set-up a New Belgian Marteloscope
ByRahel Könen 25/02/202616/06/2026

For one semester, Simon Musin, Antoine Van Lede, Samuel Konsdorff, Louis Uytterhaegen and Tom Schriewer shared a mission: To figure out how to set up a new marteloscope close to their Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech faculty in Belgium. But how does one set-up a 1-hectare forested, monitored, and mapped site, used to train forest managers, owners or students on the intersection of biodiversity conservation and timber production? We sat down…

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