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Today, we are excited to share our latest Teaming Up 4 Forests study Productive and Biodiverse, a new synthesis study examining how Europe’s forests can continue to supply wood while maintaining or improving biodiversity. The study finds that productive and biodiverse forests are achievable in Europe. But achieving both depends less on finding a single...

Forests remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and store carbon in living biomass and soils. But that is only part of their relationship with the climate.  When trees are harvested, carbon remains stored in wood products after it leaves the forest. How long it stays there depends on what the wood becomes and how long...

There is no single measure of forest biodiversity. Species counts can give us an indication, but biodiversity also includes genetic variation, the structure of forests and the ecological processes taking place within them. A measure that captures one part of that picture may tell us relatively little about another. That makes measuring change more demanding...

Forests provide many things at once. They supply wood, store carbon, regulate water, protect against natural hazards and soil erosion, support biodiversity and provide space for recreation. But not every one of these functions can be maximised in the same place at the same time. Sustainable forest management recognises the ecological, economic and social functions...