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Finnish Society of Forest Science organised the traditional Forest Sciences’ Day on topic “From sustainable timber production to sustainable forest bioeconomy”. Forest Sciences’ Day is the most important annual gathering of forest scientists and others interested in forest sciences. This year, we had the 32nd Forest Sciences’ Day.
Forest Sciences’ Day 2024 is a part of the programme of the “Year of Sivistys“. The Finnish word “sivistys” does not have direct translation into English but it refers to civilisation, good general education and enlightenment. The Finnish Society of Forest Science participates for enhancing general understanding on forests and forestry. We emphasise the Everyone’s Right to Forest Science.
The topics of the morning plenary session dealt with many dimensions of the sustainability concept, green investment, reliability of forest development scenarios for evaluating sustainability, responsibility in the wood procurement of a global forest enterprise and feasibility of forest bioeconomy transitions.
The science clubs of the Finnish Society of Forest Science organised six parallel sessions in the afternoon. In these sessions, sustainability was discussed from the viewpoints of several subdisciplines of forest sciences. By the end of the Day, we celebrated the 115 years of work for enhancing forest sciences by the Finnish Society of Forest Science.
Recordings of the talks given in the event are now available on the Forest Sciences’ Day website.
Forest Sciences’ Day is free for all thanks to the financial support from the foundation Metsämiesten säätiö.