International Forestry Students´Association e.V.
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Do you know “Waldtraut vom Mühlwald”? She is the highest Tree in Germany and still growing near Freiburg. This old lady (I mean 106 years is really old in comparison to human lives !) is truly as high as the great Sydney Opera. In fact 67 meters from bottom to top. Therefore it´s a must […]
We hope all of you are quite well! The current Corona pandemic affects our lives in several ways. We got told to stay at home, to wear masks and to keep social distance when we´re outside. But yeah, it seems to be the right approach at the moment. The infection rate slows down and we […]
Last week we initiated two presentations focused around the Amazon rainforest. On wednesday Prof. Renato Robert from the Federal University of Paraná, Brasil gave a talk on his 4-week excursion through various biomes and forestry related landmarks across the Amazon which will also take place again in July 2021. All students interesed in participating can […]
The IFSA News Factory is the new system to manage news submissions. It serves as a gateway for students and IFSA officials to submit and publish information via the IFSA main website and its social media platforms. All submissions will get reviewed by the sub-commission and categorized according to your content. In addition, the best […]
At 19th December 2019, a little bit later than usual, our new LC Board got introduced. The week before our members had the possibility to apply and vote on an new created online forum what worked quite well! Different to the last year, we are very glad to inform you that every single position of […]
Date … 29th November 2019 … place … Freiburg … The weather was typical for the end of November – rainy. Still we were over 10000 people, demonstrating for a better policy on climate issuses and rise up for our future. A part of LC Freiburg joined the FFF demonstation. Posters were painted, we weared […]
On 29 and 30 November 2019, the GLF Youth In Landscape Finance Workshop followed by the fourth Investment Case Symposium took place in Luxembourg. Fortunatly, it was possible to send four delegates of our LC to this informative event! In preparation for the major conference, a lot of basic knowledge and interesting coherenes of landscape […]
From 6th to 11th of May 2019, the United Nations Forum on Forests took place in New York. Here, the International Forestry Students’ Association (IFSA) represents the United Nations Major Group Children and Youth (MGCY), a formal statutory body of the forum. It is our duty to ensure that the interests of the Youth are […]
The 46th annual Meeting of IFSA, the so-called International Forestry Students’ Symposium, was held from August 6th – 21st 2018 in Mexico. The event saw participants from 28 different countries and showed that across languages, cultures, and nations, forests connect people. Together with local students from the University of Chapigno, we made a unique 2-weeks trip through […]
The Committee on Forestry is the highest convention for forest policy within the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and convenes every second year to set a new direction and new goals for the UN institution. It took place from 16th to 20th of July 2018 in Rome in the headquarters of […]
