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A timber truck fully loaded with logs drives over a very simple wooden bridge in a forest.
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A timber truck fully loaded with logs drives over a very simple wooden bridge in a forest.
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Certificates proving the sustainable management of these areas currently exist for more than 10% of the world's forest area. However, uptake of forest management certification has been highly uneven throughout the world, and relatively little is still known about the generic factors that promote or…

FSC label on a wooden board

compares active and passive restoration approaches in plant diversity recovery in southern Ethiopia.

landscape photos - left: Passive approach | Exclosures.; right: Active | Mixed species plantations

Martin Banse, Susanne Iost, Jörg Schweinle and Holger Weimar together with project partners from the DBFZ took part in the event "Monitoring the bioeconomy: performance, implications and the further development of analytical tools" on December 3 and 4, 2024 in Berlin.


The Thünen Institute of Forestry actively contributed to the workshop in Morogoro, Tanzania

group photo

Since October, the transfer of Heinz Stichnothe from the Institute of Agricultural Technology to the Institute of Forestry has become permanent.

Ein Portrait von Heinz Stichnothe

on global agricultural and timber markets conducted in Jakarta/Indonesia

The project team during the last preparations of the workshop. From left to right, behind: Richard Fischer (1), Heiner von Lüpke (1), Matthias Dieter (1), Simon Thomsen (1), Adam Bakhtiar (2), Jatna Supriatna (2), Ahmad Maryudi (3); front: Nilo Wijaya (3), Christina Ayu Andari (3), Isnaini Pramesti (2) 1) Thünen Institute, 2) DIPI Indonesian Science Fund, 3) Sebijak Institute of Forest Policy and History, University of Yogyakarta

publication compares different bio-based approaches

Graphic ‘Storage dynamics’ in the background a wood pile and smoke from a chimney

The Thünen Institute of Forestry actively participated in two ways -

Wooden pole with softened Canada flag

OSM - Open Science Meeting - organised by the GLP - Global Land Programme -

group photo

Since mid october Fatemé Ghafarian has joined our team in the working group “Economic Evaluation, Forests and Society” as a researcher.

[Translate to English:] Fatemé Ghafarian

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