Tag: timber
Sounds of the Forest: creating the world’s first forest soundmap
Following the postponement of "Timber 2020: The International Forest Festival", the festival organisers are inviting people from across the globe to contribute to a...
Who owns our forests? Forest ownership in the ECE region
A new study "Who owns our forests? Forest ownership in the ECE region" issued by the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (ECE) examines...
PEFC “Solidarity Supply Chain”: solutions to minimise consequences of 2018 Vaia...
600 millimetres of rain in 48 hours followed by winds
of 200 km/hour blasted northern Italian forests in October 2018. The Vaia storm
destroyed 42,500 hectares...
SWST International Convention 2020: Renewable resources for a sustainable and healthy...
One of the European Forest Institute's member organisations, InnoRenew CoE, will host the 63rd international convention of the International Society for Wood Science and...
Wood-chain: the technology for strengthening traceability and PEFC certification
Nowadays, forest certification schemes and European regulations demand an increasing capability for tracing and linking information along the supply chain of wood-based products. The...
Aftermath of the “Vaia” storm: PEFC Italy sustainable supply chain project
The storm Vaia caused considerable damages to the Italian forests, especially in the northeast of Italy. This area alone produces 2/3 of all Italian...
Hotter, drier, more fire-prone: how climate change will reshape wildfire hazard...
In 2025, more than one million hectares burned across the EU. In Sardinia, the Mediterranean's second-largest island, just 0.6% of fires cause over half...
