The Knowledge for Forests web portal provides forestry experts with content that helps them stay in touch with what’s going on in forestry and is particularly focused on the area of forest genetics and forest genetic monitoring. The forestry experts’ section of the portal is primarily intended for anyone who, deals with professional work in the forest sector at the contractor, engineering, higher professional or scientific level. Also available on the portal is educational content for students, forest owners and others.

The following content is especially topical for forestry experts, accessible on the portal:

• News and current developments in European and global forestry;
• Announcements and invitations to events in Europe and the world;
• Results of research and implementation projects, professional articles and other contributions;
• Educational materials for forestry experts – publications, e-classrooms, decision support systems and communication tools.

Links and resources:

• IUFRO – International Union of Forest Research Organisations
• Global Forest Information Service (GFIS)
• FAO Forestry – Forestry webpage of the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations
• European Forestry Institute – EFI – Home page of the European Forestry Institute
• EUFORGEN – European Forest Genetic Resources Programme
• Waldwissen.net – Forest knowledge website for German speaking countries
• Union of European Foresters
• EU Forest policies
• EU Environment – Forests
• CIFOR – Centre for International Forest Research
• Global Forest Watch