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This article is written and originally published by Wageningen University & Research. The future of the European forest depends on the success of the small trees, and they are struggling with the current drought. The future of the European forests is at risk due to our changing climate. To observe the effects of climate change, we often look at the large trees. But the young trees are the future of the forest and are also the most vulnerable....

Different forest management styles and their effects on biodiversity were central to discussions at the last ForestPaths’ annual meeting. Building off on these conversations, an interview on the topic was given by Carlijn Bos, researcher at the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency and ForestPaths partner.  She began by noting that sustainable wood use involves understanding how much wood can be harvested over time...

This press release has been published by EurekAlert! and AlphaGalileo.  Forests play an essential role in mitigating climate change and conserving biodiversity. As Europe moves forward on its climate and sustainability journey, it is crucial that forest-related policies and management practices evolve to fully support these goals. This is the shared objective of three Horizon Europe projects — ForestNavigator, ForestPaths...

The Joint Research Centre (JRC) of the EU has recently announced a new vacancy for a forestry sector expert at its headquarters in Ispra, Italy. More specifically, the position is of a scientific project officer within the Land Resources & Supply Chain Assessments Unit of the Sustainable Resources Directorate. It is the primary objective of the Unit to accumulate scientific data supporting policy-making in the field of sustainable natural resource...

The latest edition of the Helsinki Forest Talks began on 3 April 2025 and featured speakers from the ForestPaths project. For a second year, this format is a meeting place for diplomats and scientists who want to discuss European forestry, the critical problems that it faces and its future as a whole.  In line with that aim, the first session of the event was titled “Forests in Europe: What are the hot issues?” Opening remarks were...

A crucial dimension of the research undertaken in ForestPaths is mapping the effects of different types of forest management on biodiversity. The intricacies of this process were laid out in a recent interview with Hanneke van ‘t Veen, researcher at the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency and ForestPaths partner. The conversation took place during the project’s annual consortium meeting in September 2024.  The interview...

ForestPaths partners from Prospex Institute have recently published a report on the most recent Policy Engagement Forum (PEF) event of the project. Kick-started in 2024, this format is meant to bring the discussion on policy pathways for resilient and sustainable forestry to the various experts, stakeholders and decision-makers directly involved in the topic. Through a variety of outreach formats, views on sectoral challenges and...

Less than a year ago, aiphoria emerged as a new tool for dynamic wood material flow assessment and visualisation that was developed in conjunction with the ForestPaths project. Since then, its developers at the European Forest Institute and VITO have been working to improve upon the original design. This all feeds into aiphoria’s core objective of providing accessible, comprehensive and reliable data on wood and its carbon storage potential as...

Leading experts on earth observation for forest monitoring discussed recent advancements in forest disturbance detection. Organised by the FORWARDS project, the experts convened on 21 February 2025 for a cross-project workshop to explore how ongoing research projects can contribute to enhancing forest monitoring efforts. ForestPaths partners such as the Technical University of Munich (TUM), VITO and European Forest Institute (EFI)...

In the autumn of 2024, ForestPaths researchers from Lund University met with representatives of the IKEA corporation in Lund. The purpose of the visit was a showcase of ForestPaths findings and methodologies with relevance to the work of the company. In this sense, a dialogue on useful practices in forest management and monitoring was established. More specifically, the conversation zeroed in on the models deployed as part of the project’s efforts...

ForestPaths marked the onset of 2025 with the fifth edition of its newsletter, which contains all notable project-related updates, milestones and developments from the past six months. Here are the highlights: ForestPaths' Annual General Meeting in Italy last autumn; the Policy Engagement Forum the project organised in November 2024; the launch of the ForestChats podcast; our latest project videos - highlights from 2024 and interviews...

ForestPaths partners participated in a recent study on the styles defining the harvesting of wood in Europe’s forests. In particular, Thomas Pugh from Lund University, Mart-Jan Schelhaas and Ajdin Starcevic from Wageningen Environmental Research Institute, and Cornelius Senf from the Technical University of Munich were among the experts who contributed to the paper wherein the investigation was laid out.  In...