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…

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…

Deadline for submitting manuscripts for the Plants Special Issue on "Advances in Forest Ecophysiology: Stress Response and Ecophysiological Indicators of Tree Vitality" is 31 October 2022.

Guest editor: Nenad Potočić, Chair of the ICP Forests Expert Panel on Crown Condition and Damage Causes

More information: …

Biodiversa+ is a wide co-funded biodiversity partnership for research on biodiversity, policy and society.

The 2022-2023 Call has a clear acronym: "BiodivMon" open to research proposals on "Improved transnational monitoring of biodiversity and ecosystem change for science and society" covering terrestrial, freshwater and marine…

The PCC is happy to announce that the ICP Forests 2022 Technical Report and the Online Supplement are now available online and can be downloaded from the ICP Forests website.

Printed copies will be available…

The Swiss Federal Office for the Environment FOEN has published a new video on the effects of nitrogen deposition on Swiss forests. It is a beautifully designed educational video aimed at the general public.

The video is available on YouTube in three languages so far:…

There is a new self-paced online course that aims to raise awareness about air pollution and its effects, ways to prevent and reduce harmful emissions and the Convention and its protocols as an international framework for co-operation on cleaner air.

The course features four distinct modules that aim to equip learners with the knowledge and resource…

The new Ad Hoc Working Group on Tree Physiology within the EP Crown Condition and Damage Causes is still looking for experts in forest ecophysiology.

For more information, please have a  look at their call or contact Filippo Bussotti (filippo.bussotti@unifi.it) and Martina Pollastrini (martina.pollastrini@unifi.it) directly.

The 38th Task Force Meeting was held online with 93 participants from 28 countries, including presenters from other bodies under the Convention and external guests.

Thank you again to all participants for making this meeting a success and we hope to see you again in person at the 39th TFM in Helsinki next year!

With best…

The ICP Forests Heads of the Labs Meeting took place at the Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL on 12-13 May 2022 with 58 participants (15 online) from 20 countries.

Topics that were discussed included the results of the last ring tests (water, foliage and soil) as well as methodical aspects (ICP-MS, Mercury in wood and deposition samples, bark sampling for determination of the nutrient status,…), and the stability of soil solution samples.

Due to the…

We thank Vít Šrámek and his colleagues from the Czech Forestry and Game Management Research Institute for organizing this year's Joint Expert Panel Meeting in Prague, 5-7 April 2022.

Participants were very grateful for meeting in person again after two years of online meetings under the COVID19-pandemic and appreciated peaceful…

This webinar in cooperation between Forest Europe and ICP Forests will focus on

(1) the policy-making perspective of forest health monitoring, current criteria and indicators, and future needs for decision-making,

(2) the state-of-the-art developments in the field from terrestrial and remote…

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 a peaceful and healthy new year 2022.

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

We are pleased to announce the online publication of

ICP Forests Brief No 5 - Tree health is deteriorating in the European forests

You can download this brochure from the ICP Forests website. Printed copies will be available soon.

With best wishes for the holiday season

Alexa Michel

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