The European State Forest Association (EUSTAFOR) represents commercially-oriented state forest companies, enterprises and agencies that have sustainable forest management (SFM) and sustainable wood production as major concerns.
The Association currently has 34 members in 24 European countries.
European land owners’ and managers’ survey on innovations for forest ecosystem services Dear members, help us to map ecosystem services - benefits that your forests are providing to society by answering a questionnaire in which you can also comment on any problems that you might have from creating an income from these benefits. The survey is a joint effort by two European Union Horizon 2020 funded innovation projects (SINCERE and InnoForESt). This European-wide survey is meant to identify ...
EUSTAFOR is pleased to announce that Dirección General del Medio Natural - Junta de Castilla y León from Spain became the newest member of our association as of 1 June 2019. The region of Castilla y León is one of the largest European regions and preserves an extraordinary richness of forests and biodiversity. Public forests, mostly owned by municipalities and other local entities, occupy around 2,5 million hectares, which is 50% of the forest and other wooded land area. According t...
European forests and the forest-based sector welcome the political guidelines of the President-elect of the Commission Ursula von der Leyen which aim to ensure the EU’s transition to a climate-neutral continent by 2050. An updated EU Forest Strategy is needed, alongside the EU Biodiversity Strategy towards 2030, to give appropriate recognition of multifunctional European forests as a part of the European Green Deal. The roles of forests and forestry extend well beyond carbon n...
European land owners’ and managers’ survey on innovations for forest ecosystem services Dear forest owners and forest managers, help us to map ecosystem services - benefits that your forests are providing to society by answering a questionnaire in which you can also comment on any problems that you might have from creating an income from these benefits. The survey is a joint effort of two European Union Horizon 2020 funded innovation projects (SINCERE and InnoForESt). This European-wide su...
