Dear website discussion group leaders,

I would very much appreciate it if you took some time over the summer to look at your groups on this website and delete the ones that are not actively used anymore OR initiate the discussion once more.

Thanks so much!
Alexa

Dear members of the ICP Forests website community,

I have uploaded a few pictures from this year's Expert Panel Meeting in Zagreb - thanks Nenad! - and Scientific Conference and Task Force Meeting in Bucharest - thanks Ovidiu!

Please remember to upload pictures to the website from any ICP Forests meetings, field work, forest ecosystems that you would like to share. I also always look for pictures for ICP Forests reports and this is a great source. Thank you!

With best wishes
Alexa Michel
Programme Co-ordinating Centre of ICP Forests

On behalf of the ICP Forests lead country and all members of ICP Forests, Mr Clemens Neumann, Head of the Directorate 5 at the German Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture, expresses his sincerest thanks to former Chairman of ICP Forests, Mr Michael Köhl, for more than ten years of work for ICP Forests. For the complete thank-you letter please follow this link.

Dear Michael

On behalf of the Programme Co-ordinating Centre (PCC) of ICP Forests at the Thünen Institute of Forest Ecosystems I would like to thank you for successfully administrating ICP Forests since 2005. Over the years a constant flow of internal and external strategic decisions had to be taken along with official duties at annual meetings of the Task Force of ICP Forests, the Programme Co-ordinating Group and other bodies and ad-hoc groups of ICP Forests. Your effective and clear manner was helpful in many complex situations, which an advanced monitoring programme such as ICP Forests had to face over the years.…