News

Spring Exccursions 2025 in the Netherlands

The Pro Silva Netherlands spring excursions will take place in 2025 on 21, 22 and 23 May in the Amerongen forestry (Utrechtse Heuvelrug).

30th Anniversary Pro Silva Bohemica

At the End of April Pro Silva Bohemica celebrated its 30th anniversary in Brno. Speeches of honory guests were followed by lectures, a panel discussion with guests and a field trip.

New President in Netherlands

Vincent Troost

Vincent Troost was elected on 23rd January 2025 as new president of Pro Silva Nederland

Pro Silva Montenegro established

The establishment of Pro Silva Montenegro was initiated by Franc Ferlin. On October 26th the founding assembly singed the decision on establishing the NGO “Pro Silva Montenegro”.

Annual Meeting 2025 Sardegna (Italy)

The next annual meeting will take place in the center of island Sardegna (Italy) from May 7th to 9th.

New President in Italy

Pierangelo Miola from Vicenza was eleted as new president of Pro Silva Italia

Last field trip with Bill Mason

Bill Mason, has been CCFG Chair for over 10 years and has provided kind and gentle guidance. On beginning of May 2024 her participated in his last field trip. We also present the new committee.

New Board of Prosilva elected

At the General Assemly of Pro Silva in Myjava, May 28th new board members were elected. Tomáš Vrška took over precidency, and Eckart Senitza will support him as vice president.

Guidelines on Closer-To-Nature Forest Management

EU has published and translated guidelines on closer-to-nature forest mangement in all European languages.

Pro Silva Annual Meeting Slovakia 2024

The next Annual Meeting of Pro Silva will be in Myjava (western Slovakia) from 28th to 31st May under the title "Upscaling close to nature practices for wider acceptancence"

historical Pro Silva Annual Meetings

Many of the historical Annual Meetings are documented online now. 9 meetings from 1990 to 2001 will be under reconstruction soon.

Pro Silva in Brussels at European Commisson

Pro Silva was invited as a European organisation to Brussels for the conference "Forests for Biodiversity and Climate". The 30th anniversary event in September 2019 was also well received.

Exemplary Forests Network

Pro Silva announces that is going to summarize and present all their exemplary forests all over Europe

New board of Pro Silva - 2017

June 30, 2017

New Board elected

Pro Silva Europa exists since more than 25 years with members from 25 nations. The new board sinc June 2017 constist of:

President: Eckart Senitza (Austria)
Vicepresident: Philippe Morgan (Wales, United Kingdom)
Sekretary: Padraig O’Tuama (Ireland)
Treasurer: Anne Hürzeler (Switzerand)
Board member: Jurij Diaci (Slovenia)
Assistant: Lucie Vítková (Czech Republic) till Dec 2017
Assistant: Alexander Held (Germany) since Jan 2018