News

Bill Mason, has passed away unexpectedly over the weekend. Bill has been CCFG Chair for over 10 years and has provided kind and gentle guidance.

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"

Pro Silva Annual Meeting Ireland 2023

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The last Annual Meeting of Pro Silva was in Co.Wicklow (Ireland) under the title "transforming forests and forest cultures in a changing world" - you find new fotos, reports and videos

News from Portugal 2023

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Pro Silva Portugal reports several participations in projects

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

Pro Silva Greece

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Contact

Dr Ioannis Spanos

Director Researcher
Forest Research Institute of Thessaloniki
dpt. of Silviculture and Forest Ecology
57006 Vassilika, Thessaloniki, Greece
Fax: +30 2310461341
Tel.: +30 2310461171 (218 office)
mobile: +30 6972271989
e-mail: ispanos(at)fri.gr (office)
e-mai: ispanos1957(at)gmail.com (home)

Administration

Secretary
Dr. Stefanos Tsiaras (Ass. Prof.)
Dept. of Forest and Natural Environment Sciences
International Hellenic University, 66100, Drama
e-mail: stefanostsiaras(at)emt.ihu.gr

activities

members: 26
yearly events: meetings
exemplary forests: forest of Sotria (Edessa) Oak forest, Forest of Olympiada (Ariana)
reference stands:
martelloscopes: under construction

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Pro Silva Greece

Pro Silva Greece is a subdivision of the Hellenic Forest Society. Ioannis Spanos is at the same time president of the hellenic forest society and Pro Silva Greece.

They are organizing excursions and organizing the panhellenic forestry congress, as a two day event with presentations of scientific papers and excursions.

They hosted the Pro Silva annual meeting in Thessaloniki in the year 2013.

here you can download the Panhellenic Congress Book of Abstracts 2019

Pro Silva Greece will establish a monitoring system according the Pro Silva guidelines and plan the measures towards continouus cover forestry. Additional they plan to invite colleagues from others countries for exchanging experience.

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foto gallery from Pro Silva Annual Meeting 2013 Thessaloniki - (C) Eckart Senitza