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TODAY, JANUARY 31 IS BREXIT !
Dear British colleagues,   The UEF members send our British foresters colleagues a special thought because the UK is leaving the EU today. For a long time, the British foresters asso ...

ABOUT BUSHFIRES IN AUSTRALIA
UEF Presidency forwards you interesting information about bushfires in Australia, published on the FAO web site. ...

UP TO DATE: INTERNATIONAL DAY OF FORESTS 21TH MARCH 2020: FORESTS AND BIODIVERSITY
The United Nations General Assembly proclaimed 21 March the International Day of Forests (IDF) in 2012. The Day celebrates and raises awareness of the importance of all type ...

UEF SEASONS GREETINGS
The whole UEF Presidency, Michael Diemer, Anna Petrakieva, Hervé Némoz-Rajot, Tomasz Markiewicz, Ilpo Puputti, Thomas Baschny and Marten Gustafsson wish you and y ...

A NEW EUROPEAN GREEN DEAL ANNOUNCED BY THE NEW EU COMMISSION IN BRUSSELS 11 DECEMBER 2019
The new European Commission, directed by President Ursula Von der Leyen, presented in Brussels on 11 December 2019 an tron ...

A NEW FOREST SECTOR JOINT LETTER ON WORKING GROUP ON FORESTS AND NATURE DECEMBER 2019
UEF is directly associated in a new joint letter from the European forests and forest-based sector’s representatives.   This lette ...

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON FORESTS FOR BIODIVERSITY AND CLIMATE IN BRUSSELS 4-5 FEBRUARY 2020
The European Commission will organize in Brussels 4-5 February 2020 an International Conference on Forests for Biodiversity and Climate on th ...

THE NEW UEF PRESIDENCY LETTER N°28 IS AVAILABLE HERE
The UEF Presidency is happy to invite you to download and read the new Presidency letter n°28, November 2019. style=$1margin-lef ...

NEW MEETING OF THE EXPERT GROUP ON F-BI FOREST BASED INDUSTRY IN BRUSSELS 16 OCTOBER 2019
As full member of the Expert group on Forest based Industry of the European Union Commission, UEF attended the last meeting in Brussels, represented by Måtron ...

FORESTERS 4 FUTURE, A NEW NGO IN GERMANY
A new NGO is born in Germany: FORESTERS 4 FUTURE. ...

FOREST IS THE NATURAL SOLUTION TO PROVIDE CLEAN WATER FOR ALL
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) juts published a new guide based on the idea that forests are a nat ...

UEF SUPPORTS OUR ROMANIAN COLLEAGUES AFTER TWO OTHER MURDERS OF ROMANIAN STATE FORESTERS IN OCTOBER 2019
The Romanian forests are really important and more of half part of the European primeval and old-growth forests are in Romania. Some organized crime syndicates are specialized in illegal logging. R ...

FORÊT 2019 JOINT SESSION OF THE ECE COMITEE ON FORESTS AND THE FOREST INDUSTRY IN GENEVA 4-7 NOVEMBER 201
UEF attended the last "Forêt 2019", joint session of the 77th session of ECE commitee on forests and the forest industry and the 40th session of the FAO European Fores ...

FIRST NATIONAL CONFERENCE OF BULGARIAN FOREST PEDAGOGUES IN YUNDOLA BULGARIA 18-19 OCTOBER 2019
UEF Presidency was  invited by UBF, the Bulgarian member of UEF, to attend the first National conference of Bulgarian pedagogues in Yundola, in the forest traini ...

A NEW JOINT STATEMENT INVOLVING UEF: MULTIFUNCTIONAL EUROPEAN FORESTS ARE CRUCIAL TO REACH THE OBJECTIVES OF AN EUROPEAN GREEN DEAL
UEF is associated in a joint statement of the European forests and forest-based sector’s representatives on the multifunctional role of European fores ...

NEXT FOREST EUROPE EXPERT LEVEL MEETING IN SLOVAKIA, KOŠICE, 23-24 OCTOBER
Forest Europe will organize its next expert level meeting on 23-24 October 2019 in Košice, in Slovakia.   The main topic of this meeting will be the preparation of the coming Eighth Min ...

LAST MINUTE: UEF INTERNATIONAL FORESTRY EXCURSION WEEK POSTPONED
Due to a lack of participants, our UEF excursion week is postponed and will take place next year.   This year again, UEF will organize in cooperation with the Rheinland-Pf ...

VISIT OF A FINNISH DELEGATION IN SWITZERLAND AND FRANCE IN AUGUST 2019
From 7 to 10 August 2019, a Finnish delegation of foresters, from METO, including Stefan Borgman its president and from YT, association of forest private employeurs, ...

NEXT PRESIDENCY MEETING OF UEF IN BULGARIA AND 110 UBF ANNIVERSARY
The Union of Bulgarian Foresters (UBF), a UEF member, invited the UEF Presidency to attend the 110th anniversary of UBF (SLB). This event will be in Yundula, in Bulg ...

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE IN BULGARIA: FORESTRY: BRIDGE TO THE FUTURE IN SOFIA 6-9 MAY 2020
Dear colleagues all over Europe, UEF is happy to inform you that our colleagues from Bulgaria are organizing a new important conference in 2020, after the 2015 Conference in Sofia. UEF fully suppor ...

CIVIL DIALOGUE GROUP ON FORESTRY AND CORK IN BRUSSELS 12 JULY 2019
While European Forests are strongly harmed by barkbeatles, dryness and Climate Change in general, the Civil Dialogue Group on F ...

SUCCESSFUL FOREST PEDAGOGICS CONGRESS IN LATVIA!
The XIV International Forest Pedagogics Congress took place from 1st to 4th of July 2019 in Riga under the title “Designing Bridges betwe ...

A FRUITFUL XXII UEF GOVERNING COUNCIL MEETING IN SWITZERLAND!
The Swiss member of the Union of European Foresters, FVW/SSF organized a sucessful and fruitful XXII Governing Council Meeting ...

A SUCCESSFUL INTERNATIONAL UEF SEMINAR IN SWITZERLAND IN MAIENFELD-CH 14 JUNE 2019
Included in the program of the XXIInd Governing Council Meeting of UEF in Maienfeld - Switzerland, the Swiss member of UEF, FVW/SSF organized an interesting International seminar abou ...

A NEW UEF POSITION PAPER ABOUT MIDTERM-REVIEW OF EU FOREST STRATEGY
Union of European Foresters (UEF) is seriously concerned about the future of European Forests. On June 15 professional forest managers from all over Europe met in Maienfeld (Switzerland) and ...