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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…

State of Europe’s Forests 2011
9/06/2011 - Read More

The State of Europe’s Forests 2011 report was released today at the sixth Ministerial Conference of the FOREST EUROPE process in Oslo, Norway.

New training manual on spatial analysis
12/04/2011 - Read More

Bioversity International has released a new “Training Manual on Spatial Analysis of Plant Diversity and Distribution”.

Learning path into Slovenian forests: Active forestry for society
12/04/2011 - Read More

As part of the celebrations of the International Year of Forests, the Slovenian Forestry Institute (SFI) and the Slovenian Forest Service (SFS) hosted…

Future forests - building on forest heritage foundations
20/09/2010 - Read More

Conservationists, foresters, bioenergy specialists, climatologists, social scientists and civil servants all came together for a special event on…

New tool to aid dynamic forest gene conservation
15/09/2010 - Read More

A new tool to aid the gene conservation of Europe’s forest trees has been unveiled in Vienna. The internet based EUFGIS information- sharing portal is…

Who owns the genes of the forest trees?
14/09/2010 - Read More

There is great ecological, economic and social value within forest genetic resources – that is a fact. But so far, the true legal status of this…

Building a sound future for Europe’s forest genetic resources

In our increasingly commercialized world - who owns forest genetic resources? How can the wise use of forest genetic resources help fight the negative…

09/03/2010 - Read More