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From Woodpeckers to Woodcutters

Published June 25, 2026 by Annabel Burg

A Wageningen University Research Visit to Sweden’s Forests

By Annabel Burg, Sietse van der Woude, Maximilian Schulte, Linus Bockenhoff, Johannes Reiche, Gert-Jan Nabuurs; and photos by Sietse van der Woude

On the morning of Sunday, we had finally arrived in Umeå. The trip had been months in the making: a research exchange between Wageningen University & Research (WUR) and the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), woven into a packed week of field visits, industry meetings, and policy discussions stretching across the country. By the end of the week, our group of six (Gert-Jan, Maximilian, Annabel, Linus, Sietse, and Johannes) would cover roughly the length of Sweden, from the boreal forests of Umeå in the North to the mixed woodlands near Gothenburg in the South. And we exchanged on several projects where we collaborate with EFI: from Wildcard to FORWARDS and Monifun.

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From Clear-Cutting to Continuity: 11th Integrate Network Annual Meeting

From Clear-Cutting to Continuity: 11th Integrate Network Annual Meeting

Published January 7, 2026 by Silvester Boonen

It was a dark and murky evening as I paved my way through Harcourt Street in Dublin. That’s when I suddenly found myself in a pub – not the kind where a lad or lass would sing a folk song – but rather a cosy, wooden, meeting room turned pub, where I’d stumble across familiar forest faces. Of course, I was in the right place – the social reception of the Integrate Network Annual Meeting! Starting off with a traditional Irish dance workshop, organised by the Integrate chairs, we started our gathering with some artistic engagement and reminisced about our past meeting in Austria. Such a social reception provided fertile ground to dive into an intensive 3-day programme on “Promoting Integrative Forest Management Practices in Managed Forests through Policy, Science & Practice” – reflecting on pioneers in young forest lands and the journey of “a forest culture emerging” in Ireland!

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Breaking silos for Mediterranean landscape resilience: lessons from ResAlliance

Breaking silos for Mediterranean landscape resilience: lessons from ResAlliance

Published December 18, 2025 by ResAlliance

Resilience is more than a buzzword—it’s a shared responsibility. Explore the insights gained, the 120 good practices tackling natural disturbances, and the policy recommendations that will help to shape the future of Mediterranean farms and forests.

The ResAlliance project has come to an end after three years of work across the Mediterranean. It has been a journey that 16 partners have travelled together, and in some stretches it has not been easy. Now that the word “resilience” is in vogue, over these three years we have experienced what makes it so difficult to apply. Creating landscapes that are resilient to the disturbances influenced by climate change does not depend on a single person, association, company, ministry or government agency. Achieving resilient landscapes requires the collaboration and coordination of multiple entities at different levels.

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relating forests: Listening to the stories of European woodlands

relating forests: Listening to the stories of European woodlands

Published December 15, 2025 by Rahel Könen

By Marianne Cornil

What stories do forests tell us when we truly listen? What imaginaries emerge from the rustling of branches, from leaf-covered forest floors, from moss at the foot of ancient trees? The European project „relating forests,” co-funded by the European Union’s Creative Europe programme, brought together four artists through a consortium of three organizations: TheatreFragile (Germany), NOBA – Norwegian Bio Arts Arena (Norway), and Cultures Éco-Actives (France). Together, storyteller Anne Dromzee, choreographer Rebekka Sartre and mask theater makers Luzie Ackers and Marianne Cornil explored these questions through an interdisciplinary artistic approach rooted in local ecosystems and cultural mythologies.

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Researching the unacknowledged: A young Belgian researcher’s journey to understand the hidden world of forest soils

Researching the unacknowledged: A young Belgian researcher’s journey to understand the hidden world of forest soils

Published November 26, 2025 by Rina Tsubaki

By Rina Tsubaki.

Soil might not be the first thing you notice when walking through a nearby forest. But it’s a quiet, hidden guardian that our forests depend on. It connects trees, insects, and fungi in ways we often overlook. Many soil organisms feed on dead plant residues, making important nutrients available to plants. Additionally, while feeding and digging, they incorporate organic carbon into the soil, improving soil structure and water holding capacity. Healthy, biodiverse soil is therefore essential for making forests resilient and multifunctional and cannot be ignored by anyone working in sustainable forest management.

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When Fire Meets Ice: Iceland’s Unexpected Wildfire Challenge

When Fire Meets Ice: Iceland’s Unexpected Wildfire Challenge

Published November 4, 2025 by Santiago Alarcón

What if I told you that Iceland, a land known for glaciers, snowstorms, and volcanic fury, is quietly becoming a frontier in wildfire risk? It sounds contradictory. Yet, that’s exactly what we experienced during a two-and-a-half-day FoRISK wildfire workshop held from October 7 to 9, in Selfoss, southern Iceland. This training was hosted by the Icelandic Civil Protection, under the Technical Assistance Financing Facility (TAFF) of the European Commission’s Directorate General for European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations (DG ECHO, the World Bank and the Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR).

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Enhancing Mediterranean landscape resilience through shared knowledge, collaboration and innovation

Enhancing Mediterranean landscape resilience through shared knowledge, collaboration and innovation

Published October 29, 2025 by ResAlliance

As the project draws to a close, ResAlliance is building bridges across the Mediterranean – connecting people, sharing knowledge, and combining traditional and modern practices to enhance landscape resilience to climate change.

Over the past year, the ResAlliance project has been building up collaboration across the Mediterranean, bringing together individuals committed to protecting forests, agricultural lands and rural landscapes. Through a series of interactive in-person and virtual information sessions, land managers, researchers and policy-makers have come together to explore a common goal: creating landscapes that can adapt to and are resilient to a changing climate.

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