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.

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.

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

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"

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

Pro Silva Portugal reports several participations in projects

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

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.

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