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#EUFORGEN enters Phase VII (2025-2029) with a renewed mandate to conserve & sustainably use Europe’s forest genetic resources!
Key priorities: 🧬Protecting genetic diversity 🌲 Enhancing #EUFGIS🤝 Supporting forest owners & policymakers
More info 👇
euforgen.org/about-us/news/n…
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📢 Have you registered for the #FORGENIUS Public Webinar 5️⃣!?
📆12 December
🕒15:00 CET
✨ Explore:
🛠️#EarthMap: no-code tool for environmental monitoring
🧬#Genetic Conservation Units diversity, distinctiveness & vulnerability
📌 Don't miss out! 👇eventbrite.es/e/110099686425…
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🌲 Reviving Norway spruce forests in the Czech Republic's Ore Mountains.🌱Pollution-resistant trees & innovative breeding programmes are helping restore these ecosystems and tackle climate change. A vital step for resilient forests!
More info here👇
euforgen.org/about-us/news/c…
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Join us for the #8MFW webinar "Species range shift in the face of climate change" 📽️🌲
Don't miss the interesting discussion with Silvio Schueler from @bfwald & Achille Mauri from @ETH_en!
🔗 youtube.com/live/_dyeBUWOHwE…
This webinar is organised by @europeanforest & @FCesefor!
Are you watching the #8MFW webinar "Species range shift in the face of #ClimateChange"?
🎙️ Silvio Schueler from @bfwald is now discussing assisted migration for #forest trees is and #genetic matters for maintaining the forest carbon sink!
Tune in now 🔗
youtube.com/live/_dyeBUWOHwE…
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Check out, a post doc position in tree breeding & forest genetics at Luke valtiolle.fi/en/jobs/researc… @OptFORESTS @evoltreeNW
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Some clear visual differences are already apparent between European provenances of Scots pine! These are being grown for our UK @OptFORESTS common gardens.
Phenotyping measurements to follow... 🌲
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🌍The @FORESTEUROPE Ministerial Conference welcomes progress on the Forest Genetic Resources Strategy for Europe & sets future priorities!
Ministers reaffirmed their commitment to sustainable #forest management through the #Bonn Declaration!
Read more👇mailchi.mp/813e6dd7e3c2/eufo…
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🔍 How can we protect forests from the growing impacts of climate change? 🌍 🌡️
Join the second FORESTIA International Conference in Orléans to explore solutions, supported by FORGENIUS and others!
Find out more!👉forgenius.eu/news/post/2024-…
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🌳The endangered Salzmann’s pine is a genetic treasure of France’s forests. Find out how researchers are preserving it for future generations 🌱💡 #ForestConservation #GeneticDiversity
euforgen.org/about-us/news/n…
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Growing Larix for @OptFORESTS common garden trials @LukeFinland. So far so good!
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Sessile oaks for UK @OptFORESTS common gardens are being potted up @Forest_Research - it feels like a big moment!
Acorns are from Scotland, Slovenia, Bulgaria, Denmark & Sweden. Already some clear differences between some progenies!
More provenances to come this next year 🌳🧬
OptFORESTS retweeted
Replying to @OptFORESTS @europeanforest @EUgreenresearch @HorizonMagEU @NordGen @EUFORGEN @FORGENIUS_EU @ForestryFuture @UCPH_Research @SoyForestal @ForestFinland
Research to prepare us for the future is vital!
Climate change has a huge impact on forests and thus also on the functioning of the huge timber industry. 🌳
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Biodiversity is key to ensuring forest landscape restoration targets are met globally – but how do we ensure these projects have the resources they need to do so? We're joined by Somidh Saha & Santiago Gonzalez Martinez to discuss. @IUFRO #IUFRO2024 youtu.be/NhSf0zsnI7E
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Escollit com un dels dos planters de referència estatal el Centre de Recursos Genètics Forestals de #ForestalCatalana de Breda. El planter forma part del projecte europeu @OptFORESTS, amb l'objectiu d'incrementar el coneixement sobre planters forestals a Europa @accioclimatica
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📢 Policymakers, it’s time to act! Consider genetic elements to ensure the stability & productivity of #forests in the coming decades!
📥 Download the #EUFORGEN policy summary & explore detailed recommendations to enhance Europe’s forest #resilience 👇
euforgen.org/about-us/news/n…
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🌍 Exciting news for #forests enthusiasts! The @IUFRO World Congress 2024 is getting closer! Don't miss key sessions on forest #genetics & genomics in Theme 1: "Strengthening forest resilience & adaptation to stress". 🔬🌲 #IUFRO2024
🔎 More info: tinyurl.com/4e54h8nx
OptFORESTS retweeted
Kokeita käynnistyy niin että heikompia hirvittää. @OptFORESTS experiments with Pinus, Qercus and Larix at full speed @LukeFinland research nursery.
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Our new report provides #science-based guidance for #biodiversity-oriented #forest #management, and proposes a set of 26 quantitative indicators and provides examples of thresholds which would be applicable under the #EUTaxonomy standard.
🔗doi.org/10.36333/fs16
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Suomalaiset ja tanskalaiset männyt idätystestissä. Testing the temperature response of 🇫🇮 and 🇩🇰 Pinus sylvestris seeds. Ongoing work of @OptFORESTS.
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Meet the speakers for this @EUFORGEN webinar on how a pest is threatening stone pines:
🔸 @magdaboudagher, #EFIMED
🔸 Bruno Fady, @INRAE_Intl
🔸 Maurizio Sabatti, @unitusviterbo
🔸 Giuseppe Scarascia, @europeanforest Biocities
Join them on 2 May!
➡️ medforest.net/2024/04/09/euf…



























