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ForestLife continues the procedures for developing the Collaboration Platform for Forests and the ForestLife Application for smartphones and tablets. At the same time, communication and dissemination of the project continue.
This summer, the extensive forest fires that occurred in Greece and other Mediterranean countries, have caused the re-opening of the debate on preventing and tackling forest fires, but also on taking swift and effective action to halt the secondary effects of these fires. A documentary evidence from the European Forest Institute proposes forest management as a response to the prevention of forest fires in the Mediterranean. Forest fires have also been the subject of a special International Conference at the Mediterranean Agronomical Institute of Chania, where the latest developments in the field of research have been presented.
Also, as the impact of forest fires is expected to intensify with climate change, new practices and tools for adaptation of forests were discussed at the first meeting of the European Innovation Partnership-Agricultural Operational Groups Service Point, held in Ljubljana, Slovenia, in June 2017.
In 2017, 10 years after the largest forest fires in the country occurred, the Black pine forest on Mount Parnonas, following systematic efforts, continues its restoration course.
The Pan-Hellenic Conference on Forestry is being organised on 8-11 October 2017, in Edessa, while Poland (Warsaw, 9-13 October) will host this year’s European Forest Week.
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