Mid-term meeting
Meeting Mid term On 24 June 2024, the Mid Term visit took place where our monitor from ELMEN An Bollen and the CINEA European Commission Boyana Vassileva were present. The LIFE Climate Forest project duration is already halfway through, which is why the mid-term meeting was scheduled. After discussing the overall project progress, deliverables and milestones, updates by [...]
Article: Forest must be managed differently
Article: forests must be managed differently Climate change is also affecting Dutch forests. "We need to manage them differently, otherwise we will lose a large part of our forests in the next century," says forest ecologist Etiënne Thomassen in this article in De Gelderlander. On 30 May 2024, Dagblad De Gelderlander pays ample attention to the need to manage forests differently (read: [...]
Publication: Climate Forest brochure
Brochure climate-smart forest management On 30 May 2024, the first LIFE Climate Forest brochures were presented to private forest owners as well as governments and organisations owning forests. The publications are intended as a first introduction to climate-smart forest management. The brochure covers the following topics:The necessity of climate-smart forest management.LIFE Climate Forest demonstrates climate-smart forest management.The ingredients of climate-smart forest management.This is how we apply climate-smart forest management.Partners and [...]
Publication: the need for forest adaptation
Article: the need for forest adaptation It is high time for forest managers to think about how to deal with climate change. Climate change and other changes in our environment are causing permanent changes in forest growth with a speed and magnitude that our forests and trees cannot easily keep up with. Forest managers and forest owners need to ask themselves whether and how they can cope with this [...]
Symposium: for policymakers
Symposium for policymakers On 5 March 2024, the partners behind LIFE Climate Forest organised a first symposium. This 'climate smart forest management' symposium was specifically aimed at policymakers and policy influencers. The reason for this symposium is the urgency of climate adaptation of our forests and the very positively received course series for forest managers, of which we would like to present an adapted and tailor-made version to then work with [...]
First example: forest area 't Zand
Forest area 't Zand In the winter of 2022-2023, the first measures will be taken in demo forest 't Zand within the LIFE Climate Forest project. 't Zand is owned by the municipality of Alphen-Chaam. Bosgroep Zuid Nederland has been managing it for several years on behalf of the municipality. It is a reclaimed forest on former drifting dunes, with mainly pine species (Pinus sp.) as the main tree species in the [...]
Mid-term meeting
Meeting Mid term On 24 June 2024, the Mid Term visit took place where our monitor from ELMEN An Bollen and the CINEA European Commission Boyana Vassileva were present. The LIFE Climate Forest project duration is already halfway through, which is why the mid-term meeting was scheduled. After discussing the overall project progress, deliverables and milestones, updates by [...]
Article: Forest must be managed differently
Article: forests must be managed differently Climate change is also affecting Dutch forests. "We need to manage them differently, otherwise we will lose a large part of our forests in the next century," says forest ecologist Etiënne Thomassen in this article in De Gelderlander. On 30 May 2024, Dagblad De Gelderlander pays ample attention to the need to manage forests differently (read: [...]
Publication: Climate Forest brochure
Brochure climate-smart forest management On 30 May 2024, the first LIFE Climate Forest brochures were presented to private forest owners as well as governments and organisations owning forests. The publications are intended as a first introduction to climate-smart forest management. The brochure covers the following topics:The necessity of climate-smart forest management.LIFE Climate Forest demonstrates climate-smart forest management.The ingredients of climate-smart forest management.This is how we apply climate-smart forest management.Partners and [...]
Publication: the need for forest adaptation
Article: the need for forest adaptation It is high time for forest managers to think about how to deal with climate change. Climate change and other changes in our environment are causing permanent changes in forest growth with a speed and magnitude that our forests and trees cannot easily keep up with. Forest managers and forest owners need to ask themselves whether and how they can cope with this [...]
Symposium: for policymakers
Symposium for policymakers On 5 March 2024, the partners behind LIFE Climate Forest organised a first symposium. This 'climate smart forest management' symposium was specifically aimed at policymakers and policy influencers. The reason for this symposium is the urgency of climate adaptation of our forests and the very positively received course series for forest managers, of which we would like to present an adapted and tailor-made version to then work with [...]
First example: forest area 't Zand
Forest area 't Zand In the winter of 2022-2023, the first measures will be taken in demo forest 't Zand within the LIFE Climate Forest project. 't Zand is owned by the municipality of Alphen-Chaam. Bosgroep Zuid Nederland has been managing it for several years on behalf of the municipality. It is a reclaimed forest on former drifting dunes, with mainly pine species (Pinus sp.) as the main tree species in the [...]