🌿 What makes a #forest healthy? Find it out in the latest episode of Branching Out podcast by @iufro.bsky.social! In this seventh episode, forest experts explore how forest health is defined differently depending on #ForestManagement goals! 🎧 Listen now ⬇️ medforest.net/2025/09/25/w...

🌳 What makes a tree a tree? And how this definition can be applied in the #Mediterranean? A new inventory of #MediterraneanTrees tackles these vital questions! Discover how this resource was developed by @efieuropeanforest.bsky.social & @inrae-france.bsky.social ➡️ medforest.net/2025/09/08/n...

Mark your calendar for the Bioeconomy Innovation Day on 25 November 2025! Explore bio-based innovations and connect with key stakeholders in the circular bioeconomy. #event #Catalonia 📍 Lleida, Spain, at the Agrobiotech Forum 🔗 Register: bioregions.efi.int/bioeconomy-i...

📢 One week to go! Join us for the second session of the #HoliSoils webinar series: How biochemistry may support microbiology? 📅 23 September, 11:00 – 11:45 CEST Open to researchers, policy-makers, & anyone interested in #SoilHealth, #forests, & climate resilience! ⬇️ holisoils.eu/holisoils-we...

📣🌍 Joining the Smart City Expo World Congress 2025? @efieuropeanforest.bsky.social will be there as well! Don't miss the key note from EFI Senior Researcher Matilda van den Bosch about the health benefits of trees and green infrastructure in cities 🏙️🌿 Read more ⬇️ medforest.net/2025/09/11/e...

🌿 Urban nature & human health on the spotlight at the Internazionale Festival of Journalism 🌿 In October, @efieuropeanforest.bsky.social Biocities Facility will join the festival in Ferrara to discuss health benefits of urban trees and green spaces! Find out more ⬇️ medforest.net/2025/09/12/e...

🔥Wildfire prevention and management are crucial when it comes to safeguarding forests. 📢 Our partners from @efimedfacility.bsky.social are sharing important observations on the topic in their #EFIWildfirePrevention campaign - find out more below: #FutureForests #Biodiversity #EcosystemServices

In the past few months, we have shared #innovations for #WildfirePrevention from various #Mediterranean countries! Our #EFIWildfirePrevention campaign is over, but #wildfire risk remains a pressing issue for the #Mediterranean 🧯🔥🌲 1/2 🧵

How to manage #WildfireRisk in highly touristic areas? 🧯🔥🌲 Today our #EFIWildfirePrevention campaign focuses an integrated #wildfire management plan from France addressing this issue 👉 hal.science/hal-04152846... Look into this and other cases of #WildfirePrevention 👉 doi.org/10.36333/rs8en

🧯🔥🌲 #Wildfires can cross borders: the Joint Chiefs’ Landscape Restoration Partnership addresses #WildfireRisk management across jurisdictions in the US 👉 www.nrcs.usda.gov/programs-ini... Read more #WildfirePrevention from the #Mediterranean & beyond 👉 doi.org/10.36333/rs8en #EFIWildfirePrevention

🔬 How biochemistry may support microbiology? 📣 On 23 September (11:00 – 11:45 CEST) join Bartosz Adamczyk (@luke.fi) for the second session of the #HoliSoils webinar series to explore innovative tools and techniques! Find out more and register now ⬇️ holisoils.eu/holisoils-we...

🧯🔥🌲 Local NGOs can assist communities in improving their #wildfire management capabilities: explore this case from Lebanon 👉 www.afdc.org.lb Dive into our #EFIWildfirePrevention publication to check innovative approaches for #WildfireRisk reduction! 👉 doi.org/10.36333/rs8en #EFIWildfirePrevention

🧯🔥🌲 To foster #WildfirePrevention in the #Mediterranean, it is key to: 🔸 Share information on cross-national issues; 🔸 Provide countries in greatest need of #wildfire management with support for capacity building! Read more on #WildfireRisk mitigation 👉 doi.org/10.36333/rs6 #EFIWildfirePrevention

💡🌿 In the last weeks we shared the #ScienceStories developed by #YLPMED 2025 participants! 📣📰 Have a look at their blogs on: 🌟 Why the forest sector needs #youth voices ➡️ medforest.net/2025/07/21/o... 📡 How technology is becoming forests’ best ally ➡️ medforest.net/2025/07/21/w... 1/2 🧵

🌿 A new EEA report highlights the urgent need to protect & restore #forests as our natural ally for absorbing CO₂: www.eea.europa.eu/en/newsroom/... The sector holds major potential to support climate neutrality and deliver significant co-benefits for people and nature. #ClimateAction #CarbonSink

💡🌿 Have you seen the compelling #ScienceStories developed by #YLPMED participants? Last May in Croatia, young leaders from the Mediterranean & Southeastern Europe came together not only to discuss forests, but to transform the way we talk about them ✨ 📣📰 Discover more ➡️ efi.int/ylp-med-2025...

🌞 Happy to be featured in @efimedfacility.bsky.social’s #EFIWildfirePrevention campaign! At #HoliSoils we have investigated how fire affect #soil health 🌱🔥 Dive into our work ⬇️ holisoils.eu/fire-use-can...

🌞 This summer, our #EFIWildfirePrevention campaign is highlighting valuable resources on #wildfires in the #Mediterranean region: many projects at the @efieuropeanforest.bsky.social are actively working on this crucial topic 🔥🌲🧯 🔍 Explore how these initiatives are making a difference ⬇️ 1/2 🧵

🧯🔥🌲 How to include economic sustainability into #WildfirePrevention, while protecting #EcosystemServices? Find out how this is done in Italy 👉 www.cfavs.it/it-it/serviz... Discover more on #WildfireRisk prevention 👉 doi.org/10.36333/rs8en Stay tuned for the next #EFIWildfirePrevention posts!

What shoes do foresters wear? This #YLPMED 2025 story steps into different foresters’ shoes to shed light on how the role needs to adapt to many work environments, calling for diverse skills, knowledge, experience, & personality ✨ 📣📰 Delve into it ➡️ medforest.net/2025/07/21/r... #ScienceStories

📣 Our new publication is out! Bruno Fady led this great work building the largest database on Mediterranean trees with the contribution of many experts around the Mediterranean! I am happy to share that the publication is now available! 👇Read the news article below and check the full publication!

Meet the Forest Justiciers in this story from #YLPMED 2025! These Forest Justiciers have backgrounds in diplomacy, journalism, geodesy, & policy… and are reshaping forestry, proving that passion, not pedigree, defines impact ✨ 📰📣 Discover more ➡️ medforest.net/2025/07/21/f... #ScienceStories

Discover this groundbreaking inventory of 496 tree species & 147 subspecies across the #Mediterranean 🧬🌿🌳 Coordinated by @inrae-france.bsky.social & @efieuropeanforest.bsky.social, this paper fills a major gap in our understanding of Mediterranean forests! Read more ➡️ medforest.net/2025/08/18/l...

Biomass reduction is key for #WildfirePrevention 🧯🔥🌲 🐐🌲🐑 In Spain, shepherds are compensated for reducing biomass as a form of payment for #EcosystemServices 👉 www.juntadeandalucia.es/medioambient... Discover more #innovations in this #EFIWildfirePrevention publication! 👉 doi.org/10.36333/rs8en

🥵 The warmest months of the year are here! 🧯🔥🌲 Are you keeping up with our #EFIWildfirePrevention campaign? 🔸 Read these Key Recommendations for #WildfirePrevention 👉 doi.org/10.36333/rs6 🔸 Explore planning and prevention #innovations from the #Mediterranean 👉 doi.org/10.36333/rs8en

What if we could have an entire #forest in our pocket? ✨This story from #YLPMED 2025 participants dives into how technology has become forests’ best ally! 📰📣 Dive into their blog post on #MedForest ➡️ medforest.net/2025/07/21/w... #ScienceStories

Open the canopy & welcome the next generation in forests! ✨📰📣 For the #YouthDay today, explore this #YLPMED 2025 story on why the forest sector needs the #youth: young professionals bring #innovation & resilience, but urgent action is needed to attract & support them ➡️ medforest.net/2025/07/21/o...

🤝 Once again, we thank our partners at @efimedfacility.bsky.social for including ForestPaths in their latest newsletter with a mention of our involvement at the Living Planet Symposium of @esa.int. 👀 Find out more: forestpaths.eu/news/forestp... #FutureForests #Biodiversity #EcosystemServices

#WildfireRisk is high in wildland-urban interfaces ⚠️ 🧯🔥🌲 Find out more on how @diputaciobarcelona.bsky.social supports municipalities to implement security strips for #WildfirePrevention in Catalonia, Spain 👉 www.diba.cat/es/web/incen... Read more 👉 doi.org/10.36333/rs8en #EFIWildfirePrevention

#ArtificialIntelligence can fight #wildfires! How? #AI can predict ignition & support response 🧯🔥🌲 An ignition probability map is used to optimise the allocation of fire suppression resources in Turkey 👉 www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_The... Learn more 👉 doi.org/10.36333/rs8en #EFIWildfirePrevention

💡🌿🍹 Looking for some fresh summer reads? Explore these compelling #ScienceStories that challenge old stereotypes and bring fresh, inclusive perspectives to the #forest sector! These stories have been developed by #YLPMED 2025 participants ✨ 📰📣 Discover them all ➡️ efi.int/ylp-med-2025...

🧯🔥🌲 To tackle the #wildfire issue in the #Mediterranean we must: 🔸 Raise decision makers’ awareness on #WildfirePrevention & its budgetary needs! 🔸 Promote education & capacity building! Read how this can foster #WildfireRisks prevention 👉 doi.org/10.36333/rs6 #EFIWildfirePrevention

🫵 Don't miss an array of important updates from the domain of forestry in the latest newsletter of our partners from @efimedfacility.bsky.social! 👀 Read below for the highlights from across Europe's institutional and project landscape: #FutureForests #Biodiversity #EcosystemServices

🌿 The July #EFIMED Newsletter is out! What’s shaping forest & climate action this summer? This edition shows how EU projects are joining forces to improve soil health, boost forest innovation, and build climate resilience across the #Mediterranean basin. 🔗 Explore now: mailchi.mp/efi/efi-netw...

Our #EFIWildfirePrevention campaign continues! Mapping compulsory brush clearing zones & strips helps landowners in France to clear #forests & prevent #wildfires 🧯🔥🌲 Discover this French online tool 👉 agriculture.gouv.fr/feux-de-fore... Explore more #innovations 👉 doi.org/10.36333/rs8en

While the EU soil monitoring law is being finalised, our latest Policy Brief is already looking at how to advance its implementation. This brief was done in collab with @holisoils.bsky.social Read here: doi.org/10.36333/pb14

Have your say! Voting is open for #ResAlliance Call 4 Innovators. Support the best ideas in #Mediterranean forestry and agriculture 🌍 ✅ Vote for your favourite submission 🎓 Join the free MOOC on climate resilience (6 languages) 👉 LandNet members, get involved: medforest.net/2025/07/25/h...

In Portugal a #forest intervention zone scheme for joint #ForestManagement promotes sustainable forest management & #WildfirePrevention 🧯🔥🌲 Learn more 👉 www.icnf.pt/florestas/zif Discover more #EFIWildfirePrevention cases here 👉 doi.org/10.36333/rs8en / @efieuropeanforest.bsky.social

#Wildfires are a threat to people, #forests & the environment in the whole #Mediterranean 🧯🔥🌲 Our #EFIWildfirePrevention campaign gathers multilingual resources: 🔸 #Innovations for #ForestFire prevention 👉 doi.org/10.36333/rs8en 🔸 Key Recommendations for #WildfirePrevention 👉 doi.org/10.36333/rs6

🌿 How can we break stereotypes in the forest sector? In May, #YLPMED 2025 brought together young professionals to explore the latest forest science! But they also learned how to communicate with impact &transform the way we talk about #forestry ✨ 1/2 🧵 mailchi.mp/efi/ylpmed20...

🧯🔥🌲 How can we achieve #WildfirePrevention in the #Mediterranean? 🔸 Promoting integrated #FireManagement approaches! 🔸 Building long-term national cohesive strategies for #WildfireRisk! Discover other key recommendations for our #EFIWildfirePrevention campaign: doi.org/10.36333/rs6

#WildfireRisk assessment is key in wildland-urban interfaces 🧯🔥🌲 In the US, Boulder County supports homeowners in making their dwellings less vulnerable to #wildfires 👉 wildfirepartners.org Explore more #innovations from the #Mediterranean & beyond! 👉 doi.org/10.36333/rs8en #EFIWildfirePrevention

Discover 120 best practices to future-proof Mediterranean landscapes against climate change! 🌿 #ResAlliance offers multilingual factsheets, videos, a MOOC & vibrant community to boost resilience in farms & forests across the #Mediterranean. Explore, learn & join us! medforest.net/2025/07/17/f...

🌿 Can nature and finance truly thrive together? Designed to fund measurable gains in #biodiversity through #conservation and #restoration , researchers explore how #BiodiversityCredits fit into the broader picture of #NatureFinance Read the full story ➡️ intercede-project.eu/biodiversity...

For our #EFIWildfirePrevention campaign, let’s delve into this #innovation from Greece! 🧯🔥🌲 Here volunteers, led by an NGO & a research institute, assess buildings & make recommendations to owners on how to reduce #WildfireRisk 👉 www.fria.gr/EngPage/kith... Read more 👉 doi.org/10.36333/rs8en

🔥🌲 Our #EFIWildfirePrevention campaign for 2025 is here! Explore this publication and discover 11 #innovations for #WildfireRisk planning and prevention from 9 countries in the #Mediterranean & beyond! 👉 doi.org/10.36333/rs8en

Our senior experts Alexander Held and Lindon Pronto have been busy with supporting media in the wildfire fight. Below are some of the latest with Alex! efi.int/news/expert-...

Summer is here, and it is time to talk about wildfires 🌞 🧯🔥🌲Stay tuned for our #EFIWildfirePrevention campaign to delve into this topic! Start by having a look at these Key Recommendations for effective #WildfirePrevention 👉 doi.org/10.36333/rs6 1/2 🧵

🌍 Still haven’t joined? The #ResAlliance MOOC is open! Learn resilience thinking with experts, real-world case studies & practical tools to tackle climate change. 💻 Free and online for students, researchers, policymakers & the curious. Enrol now! #HorizonEU www.resalliance.eu/course/resil...

🌲 Which conifers offer the best wood? A Greek study ranked 8 species for timber quality. Aleppo pine stood out for boosting local production sustainably. Despite this, #Greece relies on imports. Focusing on adapted species & better forest management could change that! medforest.net/2025/06/25/w...