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Start Date
29 Sep 2019
Description
In 2019, the IUFRO World Congress was hosted for the first time in a Latin American country. It took place in Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil, from 29 September to 5 October, and was organized and coordinated by the Brazilian Forest Service (SFB) and EMBRAPA. Some 2700 participants attended the event, which discussed various aspects related to forest research.
The Congress was a great opportunity to exchange experiences and knowledge on technological innovations, as well as to stay up to date on the latest research findings and trends for the future of forestry and forest research in all areas of the world.
It also represented a major meeting place for researchers, teachers, students, and professionals in the forestry sector worldwide to come together.
CONGRESS STATISTICS
- Participants: 2,725
- Plenaries: 5
- Subplenaries: 19
- Technical Sessions: 182
- Abstracts: 2,612
- Oral Presentations: 1,648
- E-poster sessions : 964
- Session organizers: 195
- Side events: 31
Destinations for technical visits: 15
Exhibition - Overall space: 3,780 m2 space
- Exhibitor spaces: 40
- Student volunteeers: 103
SPEECH OF INCOMING IUFRO PRESIDENT
President Elect Dr. John Parrotta, USA, addressed the delegates during the Closing Ceremony of the Congress.
Please find his message here.
Present challenges to global forests and the role of IUFRO
John A Parrotta
iForest - Biogeosciences and Forestry, Volume 12, Issue 6, Pages 488-490 (2019)
doi: https://doi.org/10.3832/ifor0066-012
Published: Nov 02, 2019 - Copyright © 2019 SISEF
SPEECH OF CSC CHAIR
Read the speech that Jerry Vanclay, Chair of the Congress Scientific Committee, held during the Closing Ceremony.
KEYNOTE SPEECHES
- Werner Kurz, Senior Research Scientist, Canadian Forest Service: Forests and Climate Change - Science in Dialogue
- Suzanne Simard, The Mother Tree Project
- Ivonne Higuero, Secretary General, CITES
- Purabi Bose: Communicating with ‚‘People‘ in Scientific Foresty Discourse
- Maria Chiara Pastore, Head of Research, Stefano Boeri Architetti, and Associate Professor, Politecnico di Milano
- Vincent Gitz, Director, CGIAR Research Program on Forests, Trees and Agroforestry (FTA): Growing forests and trees for a green future
- Francisco César Razzolini, Klabin: Using Forests and Trees for a Greener Future
- Meine van Noordwijk, Distinguished Science Fellow, World Agroforestry (ICRAF), and Professor of Agroforestry, Wageningen University: Climate-Forest-Water-People relations from tree to earth system scales
- Dipak Gyawali, Academician, Nepal Academy of Science and Technology: Forests, Soils and Water Interactions – A Policy Perspective
POSTER SESSSIONS
Posters can be viewed at https://www.morressier.com/event/iufro2019/5d3b15afea7c83e515cbf1f7
CONGRESS VIDEOS
Livestreams:
Opening Ceremony: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mgsq4WGZ7lg
Closing Ceremony: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1R9tI3cfgg
Watch short video clips of the Congress at https://bit.ly/2Jk1Mtj.
As part of the IFSA (International Forestry Students' Association) delegation, three students attended the Congress, sharing daily impressions of the Congress and supporting the IUFRO communications team in stressing the importance of nowadays hot topics in forestry research.
Find their videos here: Day 1 - Day 2 - Day 3 - Day 4 - Day 5
Other Videos
Wangari Maathai Award and Statements by Partners, Launch of GFEP video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_zIA6resTE
Interview with Léonidas Nzigiyimpa, winner of the Wangari Maathai Forest Champions Award: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eHP776w8K2I
Interview with Hiroto Mitsugi, Chair of the Collaborative Partnership on Forests, on the winner of this year's Wangari Maathai Forest Champions Award: https://twitter.com/i/status/1181854008954281984
CONGRESS PHOTOS
The photos taken during the Congress are available at https://iufro.fotop.com.br/fotos/.
IUFRO BOARD MEMBERS 2019-2024
Curitiba, Brazil.
The Congress marks the start of a new IUFRO Board term. Therefore, new Coordinators of Divisions and Task Forces and other new Board members were presented in Curitiba.
The New Team
- President: John Parrotta, United States
- Vice-President responsible for Divisions: Daniela Kleinschmit, Germany
- Vice-President responsible for Task Forces, Special Programmes, Projects and IUFRO-led Initiatives: Shirong Liu, China
IUFRO Divisions and their Coordinators
- Division 1 Silviculture: Jens Peter Skovsgaard
- Division 2 Physiology and Genetics: Santiago González Martínez
- Division 3 Forest Operations Engineering and Management: Woodam Chung
- Division 4 Forest Assessment, Modelling and Management: Donald Hodges
- Division 5 Forest Products: Pekka Saranpää
- Division 6 Social Aspects of Forests and Forestry: Cecil Konijnendijk
- Division 7 Forest Health: Eckehard Brockerhoff
- Division 8 Forest Environment: Sandra Luque
- Division 9 Forest Policy and Economics: Monica Gabay
IUFRO Task Forces and their Coordinators
- Forest Education: Sandra Rodríguez-Pineros and Khalil Walji
- Monitoring Global Tree Mortality Patterns and Trends: Henrik Hartmann
- Fire$ - Economic Drivers of Global Wildland Fire Activity: François-Nicolas Robinne
- Forests and Water Interactions in a Changing Environment: Xiaohua (Adam) Wei
- Gender Equality in Forestry: Gun Lidestav
- Resilient Planted Forests Serving Society & Bioeconomy: Christophe Orazio
- Strengthening Mediterranean Nursery Systems for Forest Reproductive Material Procurement to Adapt to the Effects of Climate Change: Fulvio Ducci
- Unlocking the Bioeconomy and Non-Timber Forest Products: James Chamberlain
- Transforming Forest Landscapes for Futures Climates and Human Well-Being: Andreas Bolte
Find a list of all Board members here: https://www.iufro.org/main-bodies
Venue of Congress 2024:
Stockholm, Sweden
HONOURS AND AWARDS
Niels Elers Koch.
Photo by COC.
Scientific Award Winners.
Photo by COC.
Award Winners.
Photo by
Morné Booij-Liewes, FABI.
Photo by
Morné Booij-Liewes, FABI.
Award Winner.
Photo by COC.
Honorary Membership
Niels Elers Koch, Denmark
Distinguished Service Award
Yeda M. Malheiros de Oliveira, Brazil, Congress Organizing Committee Co-Chair
Joberto Veloso de Freitas, Brazil, Congress Organizing Committee Co-Chair
Jerry Vanclay, Australia, Congress Scientific Committee Chair
Piotr Paschalis Jakubowicz, Poland, promoter of IUFRO activities in forest education
John Stanturf, U.S.A., engagement in IUFRO-SPDC thematic networking and training activities
Congress Host Country Scientific Award
Sebastião do Amaral Machado
José Natalino Macedo Silva
Celso Edmundo Bochetti Foelkel
Maria José Zakia (Zezé)
Scientific Achievement Award
S. Ellen Macdonald, Canada
José L. de Moraes Gonçalves, Brazil
Maria Nijnik, U.K. (not present during award ceremony)
David J. Nowak, U.S.A.
Elena Paoletti, Italy
Marielos Peña-Claros, Netherlands
Terence C.H. Sunderland, Canada
Margarida Tomé, Portugal
Daowei Zhang, U.S.A.
Junyong Zhu, U.S.A. (not present during award ceremony)
Outstanding Doctoral Research Award
Angela L. de Avila, Brazil/Germany
Sarah L. Burns, Argentina
Andrea Hevia Cabal, Spain
Verónica F. Loewe Muñoz, Chile
Lichao Jiao, China
Rubén Valbuena, Spain
Ida Wallin, Germany
Zhen Yu, U.S.A.
René Zamora-Cristales, Guatemala
Student Award for Excellence in Forest Science
Shankar Adhikari, Nepal
Katharina Albrich, Austria
Shourav Dutta, Bangladesh
Ange A. Raharivololoniaina, Madagascar
Andrea M. Vasquez-Fernandez, Peru
Khalil Walji, Canada
Best Poster Award
Elizabeth Neire da Silva, Brazil
Angeline Martini, Brazil
Masakazu G. Iwaizumi, Japan
Wouyo Atakpam, Togo
Naohiro Imamura, Japan
Giovanni Mastrolonardo, Italy
Luiz Felipe de Castro Galizia, Spain
Tchegoun Blaise Tchetan, Benin
CPF Wangari Maathai Award
Leonidas Nzigiyimpa, Burundi
http://www.cpfweb.org/95257/en/
COMMUNICATION PIECES
World's largest forest research congress reinforces the importance of science
El mayor congreso de investigación forestal del mundo fortalece la posición de Brasil en la comunidad científica
Special issue of the IFSA Newsletter on the IUFRO World Congress
25. IUFRO-Weltkongress in Brasilien
Other articles are available at https://www.embrapa.br/en/florestas/noticias/congresso-iufro-2019.
PRESS RELEASES
- New Leadership in IUFRO – John Parrotta Follows Mike Wingfield as President - 5 October 2019
- IUFRO and WWF Intensify Collaboration to Advance Sustainability Goals - 4 October 2019
- Scientists Pledge to Speed up Efforts to Counter Global Forest Threats - 4 October 2019
- Activist from Burundi receives top forestry award - FAO press release - 1 October 2019
Also available in Arabic, Chinese, Italian, French, Spanish, Russian - Forest Science for Future: World Congress of Forest Research Starts in Curitiba, Brazil - 30 September 2019
- Putting a Halt to Tropical Forest Loss is a Matter of Human Survival; 9 September 2019
- Information for Media Representatives and Journalists - 6 September 2019
- Communiqué regarding the IUFRO World Congress 2019 in Brazil - 13 June 2019
IUFRO-SPDC PRE-CONGRESS TRAINING WORKSHOPS
Photo by William Harvey.
In the week prior to the XXV IUFRO World Congress four TRAINING WORKSHOPS on
(I) Scientific Methods in Forest Research;
(II) Systematic Reviews in Forest Science;
(III) Implementing Forest Landscape Restoration in Africa and Asia; and
(IV) Implementing Forest Landscape Restoration in Latin America
took place in parallel sessions: https://www.iufro.org/science/special/spdc/tw/iwc19tws/
All training workshops were fully booked
CALLS AND IMPORTANT DOCUMENTS
XXV IUFRO World Congress
on the occasion of the
IUFRO 125th Anniversary Congress.
- 29 September 2019 - Congress begins
- 13 June 2019 - Communiqué regarding the IUFRO World Congress 2019 in Brazil -
PDF for download in English - Spanish - Portuguese
- 31 May 2019 - Registration deadline for early-bird registrations and presenting authors
- 28 February 2019 - Authors advised of decisions on their abstracts
- 10 January 2019 - Deadline for submission of abstracts
- October 2018 - Call for abstracts
Deadline: 31 December 2018
- 31 August 2018 - Decisions on session proposals advised
- 3 August 2018 - Deadline for submission of session proposals
- 24 May 2018 - Call for Session Proposals
Deadline: 3 August 2018
- 6 March 2017 - Call for Nominations for IUFRO Awards
Deadline: 31 August 2018
MEDIA
- Federación Paraguaya de Madereros FEPAMA: http://www.fepama.org/invitan-a-presentar-trabajos-para-congreso-forestal-mundial-iufro-2019-a-realizarse-en-brasil/
- Florestabilidade: http://www.florestabilidade.org.br/site/brasil-se-prepara-para-sediar-o-xxv-congresso-mundial-da-uniao-internacional-de-organizacoes-de-pesquisa-florestal/
- Serviço Florestal Brasileiro: https://soundcloud.com/sfbflorestal/iufro-2019
- Press release EMBRAPA: https://www.embrapa.br/busca-de-noticias/-/noticia/13868468/congresso-mundial-da-iufro-2019-ja-esta-ai
- Press release Serviço Florestal Brasileiro: http://www.florestal.gov.br/noticias-do-sfb/brasil-sera-1%C2%BA-pais-da-america-latina-a-sediar-congresso-internacional-de-pesquisa-florestal
- Press release IUFRO: Paving the Way for the First Ever IUFRO World Congress in Latin America
SPEECH OF INCOMING IUFRO PRESIDENT
President Elect Dr. John Parrotta, USA, addressed the delegates during the Closing Ceremony of the Congress.
Please find his message here.
Present challenges to global forests and the role of IUFRO
John A Parrotta
iForest - Biogeosciences and Forestry, Volume 12, Issue 6, Pages 488-490 (2019)
doi: https://doi.org/10.3832/ifor0066-012
Published: Nov 02, 2019 - Copyright © 2019 SISEF