Forest resilience and protection must be a priority to ensure their long-term maintenance. Continuous cover forestry (CCF), or close to nature foresty, is a proven solution to make forests more resilient, but it faces a strong resistance as well as a lack of skills and knowledge. ‘TraineeForChange’ aims to show forestry students an alternative forest management system for more resilient forests and to make them aware of the importance of their role to raise public awareness. This way of managing forests requires students to invest time and effort in continuous learning and training during their whole careers. This project is based on two complementary axes: an intensive one-week course for young forestry students and a communication campaign to raise public awareness.
The project is coordinated by Forêt.Nature ASBL