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Curious about woodland carbon? Join the Forestry Commission's Woodland Carbon Takeover starting August 15th. This two-week event aims to provide clear insights into the carbon market with engaging resources and live interactions. 📅 What's Happening: Live Q&A: Engage directly with experts from the Forestry Commission, Forest Research, and UK Woodland Carbon. Ask your questions and get informed! Twitterstorm: Join in on August 1st (Earth Overshoot Day) to discuss the role of forests in carbon capture and climate action. 🎥 New Resources: Four informative videos covering topics such as how trees capture carbon and the woodland carbon process. Fact sheets and infographics to guide you through understanding carbon and its impact. Visit the Forestry Commission's carbon collection page to explore these resources and participate in the conversation. #WoodlandCarbon #CarbonMarket #ClimateAction #ForestryCommission #CaseForTrees

🌳 Session Highlight🌳 How can we balance the growing demands of agrifood systems with the urgent need to protect and restore our forests? Join us for an insightful session featuring FAO ‘s flagships and research from the Forestry and Agrifood Economics divisions. The first presentation will discuss key findings from The State of the World’s Forests (SOFO) 2024, highlighting forest-sector innovations for forest conservation, restoration and sustainable use. The second presentation will explore the trade-offs between agrifood systems and forests through a systematic review. The final presentations will focus on developing innovative tools to assess forestry projects, including carbon mitigation estimates and socio-economic impacts using Earth Observation and Machine Learning techniques Ana Paula de la O Campos Antonio Scognamillo @Joanna IIicic Amy Duchelle #FLARE10 #TreesForestsPeople

March 21 is the International Day of Forests, and the Atlantic Forestry Centre in Fredricton, NB is the ideal place to celebrate! The #IntlForestDay theme for 2024 is #Forests and #Innovation. Let's look at how the Canadian Forest Service helps find New Solutions for a Better World... Our policies, projects and innovative implementations of Indigenous knowledge have shown how coexisting with the forest is the only path forward. The Canadian Forest Fire Danger Rating System has been applied in full or in part all over the world! The CFS carbon accounting team has actively trained international collaborators to adapt and use the system. To date, the CBM-CFS3 has been applied in over 30 countries. International Model Forests are a distinctly Canadian idea -- one that shifts the view of forests from solely a timber resource to a vision where the social, environmental, economic and cultural benefits are valued.   Scientific services such as our herbariums, Insect Production Services, arthropod and insect collections, the National Tree Seed Centre and wood reference collections inform clients around the globe. Our #international collaboration has led to a recently published paperoutlining the methods of early detection of bronze birch borer from Swedish university. CFS field and lab work was key to its publication, as were contributions from Italy, France and USA. The CFS plays an important role in international treaties like CITES and the Convention on Biological Diversity. Our scientists keep invasive species at bay through the International Forestry Quarantine Research Group and the ISPM-15, and we're part of the North American Forest Communicators Network. The first workshop took place in January at the central offices of Mexico’s National Forestry Commission...advancing innovation and encouraging collaboration between countries. Keep an eye out for the release of the State of #CanadasForests Annual Report this week! Sign up to receive it by email (see link in the comments) Happy #IntlForestDay!

The schedule for the FPBC conference and AGM is stacked with crucial discussions, innovations, and ever-present themes in the forestry sector. A few of those upcoming discussions are: 🟠 the safe reintroduction of landscape-level fire to our ecosystems 🔴 building wildfire resilience in the wildland-urban interface ⚫ assessing the current state and future path for BC First Nations in the forestry sector, with a focus on readiness and assurance 🔵 watershed risk management and the Blue Ecology Theory 🟢 value in the forest sector and questioning whether it extends beyond product pricing - strategies for retaining the next generation of forest professionals 🟣 transformative collaborative planning for managing BC's forests 🟡 insights from Finland on forest culture and innovation Which one piques your curiosity most and why?

As part of my contribution to Pixxel's growing online repository of hyperspectral resources, I'm proud to share our latest whitepaper, "The Hyperspectral Advantage in Forestry." Check it out! Here is a sneak peek of what it includes: • Addressing key challenges: Gain insights into our forests' challenges and explore how hyperspectral imagery is posed to overcome them. • Key use cases: We explore real-world applications, including tree species mapping, invasive species detection, and forest health monitoring, using exhibits from Pixxel’s imagery. • Pixxel’s hyperspectral advantage: Find out how our advanced technology enables organisations to detect, classify, and quantify threats to forests worldwide.

The theme of this year's International Day of Forests is 'Forests and Innovation: New solutions for a better world'. While the forestry sector is not widely seen as one of the world's most innovative, there are plenty of new and ongoing developments – within the sector and beyond – with clear potential for implementation and scaling to make transformative impact. In this vein, CIFOR-ICRAF is drawing on emerging innovations from a wide range of sectors to achieve more targeted, efficient, and effective forest conservation. Explore our innovations and learn how they are revolutionizing forest conservation and restoration.>>> #TreesPeoplePlanet #InternationalDayOfForests

🌳🌲🌳 Project-Specific Dynamic Baselines Enhance Precision in Improved Forest Management (IFM)    Did you join us for our IFM webinar a couple of weeks ago or at Climate Week NYC last week? Are you an interested project developer?     ACR’s latest IFM version 2.1 is fundamentally the same workable approach that has been applied to millions of acres of forest already across the U.S. and Canada, with enhanced requirements for rigor and precision.     Kurt Krapfl, ACR’s Forestry Director, shares a few of the core innovations in the updated methodology, in particular Project-Specific Dynamic Baselines, in our latest Carbon Markets 101 blog.     Read the blog here: https://lnkd.in/eX8Jxu5H Gabriel Burns, Umesh Chaudhari, PhD, Megan Dudley, Charlie Mize, Gabriel Piacsek, Warren Reed, Andrew Taylor

🌲 Did you know? Well-managed forests on the right kinds of soil can sequester and store carbon, effectively pulling damaging carbon dioxide from our atmosphere. 🌍 According to Yvonne Buckley (professor of Zoology at Trinity College Dublin), Ireland's journey from 1% to over 11% forest cover in the past century showcases progress and challenges. Promoting multifunctional and diverse forest mosaics can enhance biodiversity, improve water quality, and provide recreational spaces. Continuous cover forestry maintains a forest canopy while selectively harvesting, ensuring soil protection and sustained carbon storage. To combat the impending "carbon cliff," we need to plant at least 8,000 hectares of forest annually to cover 18% of Ireland's land by 2050. This ambitious goal requires substantial investment in both public and private forestry sectors. For the full article from The Irish Times, click here: https://lnkd.in/eEnMVyiv Want to improve your forestry services? Follow our page, share, and visit our website: www.forestryservices.ie #ClimateChange #Forestry #Sustainability #EnvironmentalImpact #CarbonSequestration #EcosystemServices

Advancing Forestry Insights with Work Package 3 of MoniFun 🌍🌲 Join Gherardo Chirici, the Work Package 3 lead in the MoniFun project, as he unveils cutting-edge techniques for forest management. 🚀🌳In this enlightening video, Gherardo discusses how we are leveraging data from the EU’s Copernicus Sentinels along with crucial field data from European National Forest Inventories to develop spatially explicit maps and estimates for key forest indicators. Discover how these innovations are transforming forest monitoring across Europe. 🌲📈 👀 Watch the video to learn more about our journey towards a European Monitoring System for the Multifunctionality of Forests! #MoniFun #EuropeanForests #ForestMonitoring #HorizonEurope #researchandinnovation

We know our trees to their core    With more than 13,000 (harmless) tree core samples from our projects, Anew Climate's forestry team holds unrivaled insight into the rate of tree growth and carbon sequestration across North American forests. Cores are a window into how each tree has grown over its lifetime; through the decades and seasons in that particular ecosystem. This data is a core component (we had to) to help inform a forest's carbon productivity, which we continue to verify over the life of each project. Learn more: https://lnkd.in/ght3Kmcp