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

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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

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

Pro Silva Montenegro established

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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)

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

New President in Italy

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

Last field trip with Bill Mason

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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

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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

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

Pro Silva Annual Meeting Slovakia 2024

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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

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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

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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

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

Membership at Pro Silva

Pro Silva Europe operates on both national and international level. Please contact representatives of individual Pro Silva Europe country members for further information regarding national and local meetings, excursions, lectures, etc… and explore their webpages for further detail.

Pro Silva Group in Scotland (2016) (C) Eckart Senitza — Pro Silva Group in Scotland (2016)

Membership Categories

Since 2017 "Pro Silva" offers two different member categories

Full members as independent national organisation that incorporate the Pro Silva Principles
Associated Members for those partners "under developement" either within Europe
or partner organisations outside of Europe around the whole globe.

More details about the definition you find under "Becoming Member".

Full Members

Pro Silva in the year of 2022 has 22 full members within Europe. Behind each flag you can find faces that represent the individual organisation and also some basic facts about them. Hit the flag or the countries name !

Pro Silva Austria

Pro Silva Wallonie

Pro Silva Croatia

Pro Silva Bohemica

Pro Silva Danmark

Pro Silva Finlandia

Pro Silva France

ANW Deutschland

Pro Silva Greece

Pro Silva Hungaria

Pro Silva Ireland

Pro Silva Italia

Pro Silva Luxemburg

Pro Silva Montenegro

Pro Silva Nederland

Pro Silva Polonia

Pro Silva Portugal

Pro Silva Slovakia

Pro Silva Slovenia

Pro Silva España

ProSilva Switzerland

Cont.Cover Forestry Grp.(CCFG)

Members under developement within Europe

There are several partner organisations within Europe that either do not fulfill the conditions to bear the name "Pro Silva" (as as trademark) or they are formally existing, but not active yet.

Pro Silva Bulgaria

Pro Silva Norway

Albanian Interest Group

Estonian Focal Point

Romanian Interest Group

Serbian Focal Point

Bosnia-Herzegovina

North Macedonia

Contact Point Lithuania

Republic of Kosovo

Associated Members

Here we list the contacts to all our associated members. We are glad to welcome 7 partner organisations from outside Europe and from within Europe that we keep closer contact to each other.