OpenForests attended: Our Forests, Our Future – Forestry Conference, Brussels | 25-26 April 2019
Sustainable forest management to address societal challenges. Impressions from the event More information about the conference Draft agenda
Interactive Story Setting
Create the setting and environment for your story and allow your audience to freely explore your project via multimedia. Instead of actively telling the story, you can gather various information and organize them in a multimedia platform or web map...
Beyond the Canopy – About this podcast
Trailer of the Forest Landscape Stories (newly Beyond the Canopy) podcast. We are going to talk about inspiring examples in sustainable forest landscape restoration. Science gives evidence, that climate change is already harming the world’s ecosystems. However, people were more...
OpenForests in Mongabay
Information-based solutions for forest conservation projects To the article Forest monitoring has experienced a revolution in recent years, with vast improvements in satellite sensors, the emergence of drones, and growing ubiquity of on-the-ground technologies like smartphones and camera traps. These...
OpenForests launches the forest project platform explorer.land
Transparent project presentations and exciting project stories take stakeholder engagement to a new level Krefeld, Germany — October 30, 2018: OpenForests, an innovative German forest consulting and tech company, just released the explorer.land platform. The interactive map-based platform is designed to present forest and...
Failure as opportunity to think broad and deep
How OpenForests poked the box and developed innovative Forest Information Services. Becoming a professional How do we become professionals? A general opinion is that we become professionals by gaining special skills through higher education and further training. My experience, however,...
The Core Concept of Sustainability
No concept is more inflationary, misused and at the same time so important. This article outlines the importance of the initial sustainability concept and how it describes our relationship with the world and the nature over time. Today’s inflationary and...
6 principles that help to design a robust Forest Information System
Costly missteps can be avoided by gaining a basic understanding of application development processes and design principles. Why are information systems needed? Thousands of forest operations and forest landscape projects run successfully using Excel files and Word documents. But there is...
Weak vs. Strong Sustainable Forest Management
Where to draw the line? The debate goes on. What is sustainable and what is unsustainable forest management practice? It already starts with the definition of sustainability which has various concepts and is still in progress. As an introduction to this...
Transparent and successful communication about your forest project
Greater disclosure + more clarity + more accuracy = More transparency More transparency = more trustworthiness + better relations with your stakeholders = More success! That’s the simple formula. But what does it mean for an organization to be more transparent and how to...