Alistair Yeomans - newly appointed ICF SE Region secretary
Earlier this month Sylva’s Director of Forestry, Alistair Yeomans, was appointed Secretary for the South East region of the Institute of Chartered Foresters (ICF).
This further extends Sylva’s support for the ICF whose role we believe is very important for the forestry sector in the UK and beyond. Sylva’s CEO Gabriel Hemery represents the ICF on the Forestry Commission’s Regional Advisory Committee in the South East, and currently serves on the ICF’s Council. Sylva has also sponsored Conference Proceedings for the last two ICF National Conferences.
If you are interested in finding out how the Institute operates and how it can benefit you and your organisation please visit their website.
Forestry Horizons recent publications
Today we launched a database for Forestry Horizons.
Some 25 different publications are now fully searchable and links to downloadable files or online resources have been streamlined. We have also added an RSS subscription so that notification of our latest publications can come direct to reader’s inboxes if they choose to subscribe.
Some Forestry Horizons highlights
- Collaboration with scientists across Europe in writing two peer-reviewed papers during 2009:
The modern silviculture of walnut.
A review of risks and opportunities for broadleaves across Europe in the light of climate change.
- Leading role in EU COST Action E42 concerning the growing of valuable broadleaves. Co-ordinated and edited the Final Report for 100 scientists from 25 countries.
- Completed two consultation research reports with our partner BioRegional concerning woodfuel resource estimatation and planning.
- Two research contract reports for UK Government Organisations – for Forest Research and for the UK Land Use Policy Group.
- Central role in the T10Q project and supervision of a DPhil student at the University of Oxford studying the use and application of evidence-based policy in forestry.
- Co-ordinated and edited Proceedings for national conferences of the Institute of Chartered Foresters: 2008, 2009.
Global Forest Information System
We have linked the database with the Global Forest Information System (GFIS), thereby promoting our resources more effectively to a the worldwide forestry community.
GFIS provides a framework to share forest-related data and information through a single gateway. It promotes the dissemination and sharing of forest and tree-related information and knowledge among the global forestry community by developing common information exchange standards, building capacity and enhancing partnerships among forestry information providers and users.
Forestry Horizons
OneOak project
myForest service
After feedback from our friends and partners we have undertaken a complete overhaul of our suite of websites.
They told us that our range of websites for the discrete elements of our work were good because they were aimed directly at different audiences. However, as we now have four websites (our main Sylva website plus three project websites) it became increasingly important to explain our work clearly as the relationship between the projects and Sylva was not always clear.
So we have worked hard to come up with a strong house style that allows the individuality of our projects to shine, yet links all the sites together. We hope that people new to the work of the Sylva Foundation, particularly those coming to us for the first time via one of our projects, will understand more easily the breadth and depth of our work.
This, our main site, has also been completely redesigned. We hope that you like what you see. We would be pleased to receive any comments or suggestions.
A mighty oak that will fall. Oxford Times. 5th November 2009. Read here
