The short film “Our Changing Forests” has won an award in the category “Scientists-as-Filmmakers” at the 6^th Global Science Film Festival.

"Our Changing Forests" uses ICP Forests data and was made by Ross Shackleton, Kingshuk Kapuri, and Chaitanya Arya. It also features our Chairman Marco Ferretti who explains, among other things, what can be done to help forests adapt to climate change.…

Dear ICP Forests Community,

Registration for the “EANET Online Workshop on the Utilization of Low Cost Sensors for Air Quality Monitoring: Recommendations and Strategies” is open. The workshop will take place online on Wednesday 6 November 2024 from 13:00 – 16:45 (UTC+7:00 Bangkok time).

The aim of the workshop is:

• To share information on technical requirements, data management, and visualization, citizen participation, policy involvement, and…

On 25 September 2024, 13:00 - 13:45 CET, our Chairman Marco Ferretti will share his experience of the challenges of leading the ICP Forests network (among other topics) as part of the CLEANFOREST interview series.

The interview series is hosted by the COST Young Researchers Community. It is open to all interested researchers and practitioners.

The registration link to listen to the interview and further information can be found…

Earlier this year, a group of scientists from our ICP Forests Community discussed the EU proposal for a forest monitoring framework in a position paper published in the journal Forest Ecology and Management (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2024.121875).

Based on this article, Stefan Fleck, Arthur Gessler, Marco Ferretti and Michèle Kaennel Dobbertin have produced a short text in…

At the IUFRO in Stockholm, some ICP Forests members presented their research and thus contributed to the international discourse on forests and society towards 2050.

Among others, ICP Forests chaired a thematic session with eight oral and nine poster presentations on trends and implications of nitrogen deposition on forest ecosystem services in a changing climate. The session…

Next year, ICP Forests celebrates its 40th anniversary. The PCC is pleased to announce that the Anniversary FORECOMON Conference as well as the Task Force Meeting will be held in Dresden, Germany, 19-23 May, 2025.

The motto of the FORECOMON will be “On the pulse of European Forests: 40 years of forest monitoring – from air pollution to climate…

Last week, the FORECOMON Conference was successfully held in Prague, Czechia. The conference motto was “Monitoring for future forests”.  

On Tuesday, June 11, the participants discussed research results on the influence of air pollution and extreme weather events on long-term processes in forest ecosystems. The knowledge exchange about new monitoring approaches to support resilient forests was also on the agenda.

On Wednesday, 12 June, the focus of the…

June 23, 2024 to June 29, 2024 – Stockholm, Sweden

The IUFRO WORLD CONGRESS, one of the largest global forest events, will take place in Stockholm in June under the theme Forests and Society Towards 2050. The congress is organized by The Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences and the City of Stockholm in close collaboration with the Nordic…

Several researchers associated with ICP Forests were examining the extent to which the current draft of the EU forest monitoring proposal is in line with its intended objectives to support forest resilience under climate change in European forests. They stated that the EC proposal lacks the integration of some crucial and already existing resources and infrastructures and they then provide suggestions to help reconciling the proposal with its objectives and a more…

The jEPM in Athens (and online) was a huge success! During four days, the experts exchanged their knowledge on the topics tree growth, phenology, meterology, deposition and leaf area index in expert panels and workshops.

Thanks to everyone who took part and special thanks to the organizational team!

Photo: Evangelia…

Europe needs a joined-up approach for monitoring and protecting its forests by Marco Ferretti, Chairman of ICP Forests

The Working Group on QA/QC in Laboratories gladly invites all laboratories to participate in the 11th ICP Forests Soil Interlaboratory Comparison (Ring Test) in order to assess the quality of the soil analytical results performed on the samples collected in ICP Forests as part of the systematic (Level I) or the intensive monitoring (Level II).…

The ICP Forests Chairman and the Programme Co-ordinating Centre wish you and your families

a peaceful and relaxing holiday season and a happy and healthy new year 2024.

Once again, we would like to express our sincere gratitude to all those involved in ICP Forests and especially the participating countries for…

The PCC is pleased to announce the online publication of the ICP Forests 2023 Technical Report: Forest Condition in Europe - The 2023 Assessment and its online supplement. It can be downloaded here; printed copies will be available…

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We are happy to announce the date of the 11th Forest Ecosystem Monitoring Conference - FORECOMON 2024 - and the 40th ICP Forests Task Force Meeting. Both will be held in Prague, Czechia, from June 10 to June 14, 2024 and hosted by the Forestry and Game Management Research Institute (FGMRI) and…

At the international scientific conference “Forest science for people and societal challenges - The 90th "Marin Drăcea" INCDS Anniversary", Bucharest, Romania, 2-5 Oct 2023, ICP Forests Chairman Marco Ferretti was offered the “Victor Giurgiu” award for forest biometrics, management planning and environmental protection. He received the award…

This year's Scientific Conference of ICP Forests is coming up: 6th June 2023, 13:00 - 16:30.

The programme includes 11 presentations devided in two sessions:

• Session 1 - Forest monitoring in the Anthropocene - the results
• Session 2 - Forest monitoring in the Anthropocene – new approaches and perspectives

For further details and participation link visit the conference…

The Chairman of ICP Forests and the team at the Programme Co-ordinating Centre of ICP Forests wish all members and friends of ICP Forests

a happy holiday season and all the best in the new year.

We would like to specifically express again our sincere gratitude to everyone involved in the ICP Forests and especially to the…