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EUFORGEN Steering Committee met in Tallinn
12/12/2013 - Read More

National Coordinators from EUFORGEN member countries gathered to Tallinn, Estonia for the ninth meeting of the Steering Committee on 3-5 December…

Side event at the European Forest Week, Rovaniemi, Finland
27/11/2013 - Read More

On the occasion of the European Forest Week, Bioversity International and FAO will hold the following side event:

The Global Plan of Action for the…

New European Commission publication on genetic resources
10/07/2013 - Read More

The European Commission (EC) has released a new publication summarizing the achievements of the 17 projects that were implemented in 2006-2011 with…

Global Plan of Action agreed for forest genetic resources
8/05/2013 - Read More

The draft State of the World’s Forest Genetic Resources (SoW-FGR) report was presented by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) to the 14th…

FAO Working Group recommends preparation of a Global Plan of Action for forest genetic resources
12/02/2013 - Read More

The Intergovernmental Technical Working Group on Forest Genetic Resources (ITWG-FGR) met in Rome on 23-25 January 2013 to discuss the preparation of…

Minimum requirements for genetic conservation units of trees published
20/12/2012 - Read More

Until recently, European countries had rather different understanding on how to apply forest conservation genetics in practice, and how genetic…

Can genetic diversity save ash forests?
14/12/2012 - Read More

You may have heard of ash dieback, a disease caused by the fungus Chalara fraxinea. This disease has been ravaging forests of common ash (Fraxinus…

EUFORGEN Steering Committee met in Paris
10/12/2012 - Read More

National Coordinators from EUFORGEN member countries gathered to Paris, France for the eight meeting of the Steering Committee on 27-29 November 2012.…

New publication on beech genetic resources in Europe

European beech (Fagus sylvatica) is an economically important tree species with a large distribution area ranging from southern Scandinavian to the…

10/10/2011 - Read More
New report on access and rights to forest genetic resources
20/07/2011 - Read More

The <link https://www.fni.no/ _blank external-link-new-window "Opens external link in new window">Fridtjof Nansen Institute</link> in Norway published…