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Forests contribute to people’s quality of life in different ways. They provide materials such as timber, fibres, and non-wood forest products, which are sources of subsistence and income generation. They also regulate the environment, surrounding ecosystems, and the climate, cleaning the air, filtering water supplies, controlling erosion,...

The publication of scientific articles in peer-reviewed journals may be a well-laid path but unfortunately the same cannot be said for grey literature. Materials and research produced by organisations outside of the traditional commercial or academic publishing and distribution channels, such as reports, white papers, policy recommendations,...

Lebanon, due to its geographic location in the Eastern Mediterranean and one of the 36 world biodiversity hotspots, is recognized as a regional hotspot where species undergo exceptional threats. Add to that an extremely complex geomorphology, allowing a mosaic of habitats for biological diversity. But there is...

Silva Mediterranea’s Mediterranean Youth Task Force (MYTF) elected its first board of coordinators for the year 2023, in a completely democratic and transparent procedure. The Direction Board is responsible for the overall functioning of the Task Force, coordinating all the committees and activities. The...

Our first article from a planned series of 3 articles came out from Biodiversity and Conservation this fall: "Simulating the potential forest ranges in an old land: the case for Turkey's forests" where we published a series of re-calibrated bioclimatic tolerance limits that can be applied to...

Nowadays, branding is not only about products and goods, but also about places. The concept of place branding has become truly relevant in today's globalised world. Ad hoc brands are developed to sponsor places, from entire nations to local destinations, from cities to natural ecosystems. The goal...

Forests are one of the most important examples of natural heritage in the Mediterranean and the rest of the world, due to their exceptional value in terms of science, conservation, and natural beauty. However, forests also have a cultural value that is often underestimated....

The impact of human behaviour on the environment has surged at the planetary scale over the past half century. Growing urbanisation, pressure on ecosystems, diverging population trends are challenging the capacity of our planet to resist to human threats. If humanity wishes to stop exceeding planetary boundaries,...

Let me tell you our story, which we call Token and DAO Based Crowdsource 4 Afforestation (C4EST). The team of our C4EST project, formed under the roof of Bilimkoop is a science cooperative which defines itself as “striving to be an innovative social organism, which shares knowledge and experience,...

ADF stands for “Agrupació de Defensa Forestal”. In English, it could be translated as “Forest Defence Groups”. When I first got in touch with them, and I tried to explain my “social innovation” approach to the research, they often replied: “This is not new. This is how...