Today's field trip: selecting continental site for @optforests.bsky.social project in cooperation with local forest managers and representatives of Slovenian state forests. Found a great candidate in the Kočevsko region.

Today's presentation of our colleague Marija Kravanja for an internal SFI audience at our Wednesday's colloquium. Includes @forgenius-eu.bsky.social project.

🌳 The Second State of the World’s Forest Genetic Resources Report will be launched on Wednesday 26 March 2025 at #FAO HQ in Rome (13:30–15:00 UTC+1), with a live webcast available.

🔎 More info & webcast: www.fao.org/forestry/all...

🌲 Happy #InternationalDayofForests from all of us at #OptFORESTS! 🌱 Our #HorizonEU project strengthens knowledge & innovation in protecting forest genetic resources.

We’re working to make key tree species more resilient to #climatechange.🔗 Don't miss our upcoming events: mailchi.mp/3a349bd9a197...

✨🌳 𝗛𝗮𝗽𝗽𝘆 #𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗹𝗙𝗼𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗗𝗮𝘆 🌳✨

#𝗙𝗼𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘁𝘀 are key in sustaining our planet and its people!
What better time than #ForestDay to celebrate 𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗲𝘁𝗶𝗰 𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗰𝗲𝘀 which are the foundation of all the services forests provide 🧬🌳

Learn more in our public webinar series 💡
🎦 www.forgenius.eu/resources/pu...

Field trip to the Te Ngae Timberlands forest nursery, which produces >2M Pinus radiata seedlings annually during IUFRO 1.01.04 Conference in Rotorua, New Zealand.
cc @iufro.bsky.social

FORGENIUS is working to enhance EUFGIS, introducing new technologies and interfaces, strengthening climate and environment data characterisation, & more 💡🧬🌲

Read more on this training on the redesigned EUFGIS organised with @euforgen.bsky.social ➡️ www.forgenius.eu/news/post/tr...
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📢 Join the OptFORESTS & @euforgen.bsky.social webinar!

🌳 "Mechanisms of natural and anthropogenic selection on trees in the forest"
🗓️ 11 April | 🕚 11:00–12:00 CEST

How does #silviculture affect #genetic diversity?👉 Register now! www.optforests.eu/news-and-med...

Today's photos from a Timberlands forest establishment site in NZ.

Boris Rantaša presenting OPTFORESTS generic trials during the presentation titled: Close-to-nature forestry, climate change adaptation and the role of next generation provenance trials during the IUFRO Early forest establishment and restoration conference in Rotorua, New Zealand.

Our department head prof. dr. Hojka Kraigher presenting the crucial role of forest reproductive material tracebiltiy for the establishment of future forests at the @iufro.bsky.social 1.01.04 Conference in Rotorua, New Zealand.

Today we visited the Italian forest tree nursery Vivaio Forestale Pascul - Tarcento in the autonomous region of Friuli Venezia Giulia.

Our goal was to establish cooperation between forest reproductive material experts from both sides of SLO-ITA border.

Cooperation is set to continue in 2025.

🌲 Na GIS je 10. 12. 2024 potekala delavnica o poslovnih priložnostih v sektorju gozdnega reprodukcijskega materiala (GRM).

Dogodek je združil 74 udeležencev, ki so raziskovali nove priložnosti, in videli aktualne prestavitve s področja GRM.

Več informacij: www.gozdis.si/novice/delav...

We're a part of the FORGENIUS project:

📢 FORGENIUS Newsletter Issue #4, December 2024 🌲

🎉 Highlights:
Innovations in genetic conservation & monitoring 🌍
Advances in drought response metrics & water dynamics 💧
Climate adaptation research in common gardens 🌳
Assisted migration for resilient forests

Yesterday we made a field excursion to the Slovenian Karst and presented ongoing forest restoration, soil microbiome and tree physiology and biodiversiry projects within our department.

Weather wasn't perfect but the atmosphere was great anyway.

#tree #forest #biodiversity