Further news 2023 - 2014

In 2020, 26.95 million m³ of wood fuels were used for heating in 5.5 million private households

Since the commencement of March, Marlen Brinkord has joined our working area Forestry in Germany as a research assistant.

Follow-up of the joint mid-term workshop of Thünen Institute and CIFOR (Centre of International Forest Research) on forest restoration conducted in Addis Ababa-Ethiopia.

Tatiana Lizbeth Ojeda Luna concluded her examination for a doctorate successfully.

Ecosystem services in the tropics depend not only on land use and forest type but are also influenced by the landscape context.

The existence of various national and international initiatives, programs and tropical forest conservation policies necessitates information on their effectiveness and optimal policy mixes.

The final workshop of the LaForeT Zambia component was organized on 1 Dec 2022 by the Copperbelt University in Kitwe, Zambia.

Fernando Gordillo Vera successfully defended his doctoral thesis on 16. February 2023.

As part of his career training as a forestry inspector candidate at the Lower Saxony Chamber of Agriculture, Mr. Lorenz Friedrich is completing a one-month internship at the Thünen Institute of Forestry in February 2023.

Since February 2023, David Schicketanz has been joining our team as a research assistant in the fields of activity "Forestry in Germany" in the project "Remote sensing based National Detection Sytem for Forest Damages".