News

CCFG turned to Pro Silva Britain

CCFG is working according to their new strategy and is rebranding the organisation as Pro Silva Britain!

New president in Switzerland

Pro Silva Switzerland elected a new president: Mélila Saucy, ambitious youg forest engineer leading “Forstbetrieb Leberberg” and presents actual activities.

A new coordinator to support close-to-nature forestry

A new coordinator to support close-to-nature forestry according to Pro Silva principles. Pro Silva announces the engagement of Anne Crespin as coordinator of the association.

Pro Silva Principles under revision

Pro Silva Principles are under revision and now are available in Serbian Language

Annual Meeting 2026 Visegád (Hungary)

The next Annual Meeting of Pro Silva will be in Visegrád (Hungary) from 9th-11th September under the title “Practice and science in partnership: Hungary's continuous-cover forestry for biodiversity"

Pro Silva Ireland visits Slovenia

In September 2025 Pro Silva Ireland spend 3 days visiting exemplary forests in Slovenia hosted by Pro Silva Slovenija.

25th Anniversary Pro Silva Ireland

The “ProSilva Ireland at 25” conference, held on 14 March 2025, was a resounding success, celebrating a quarter-century of Pro Silva Ireland’s commitment to sustainble forestry

Pro Silva Strategy 2030+

After 1 ½ years work Pro Silva developed and published the "Pro Silva Strategy 2030+" as guideline for further development. Now translations are made to members languages.

Annual Meeting 2025 Sardegna (Italy)

The previous annual meeting took place in the center of island Sardegna (Italy) from May 7th to 9th 2025. Here You find a report, fotos and presentations

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”.

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.

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.

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