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Dead trees for healthy forests and ecosystems

You have surely seen dead trees during your walks in the forest and may have asked yourself why it is left there? Isn’t a forest with a well-cleared undergrowth preferable? For generations, people have considered dead trees to be something...

January 22, 2026

OpenForests attended: Our Forests, Our Future – Forestry Conference, Brussels | 25-26 April 2019

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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

April 12, 2019

Announcements

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...

March 23, 2019

Podcast

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...

March 7, 2019

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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...

November 29, 2018

OpenForests launches the forest project platform explorer.land

Announcements

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...

October 30, 2018

Failure as opportunity to think broad and deep

Articles

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,...

October 26, 2018

Articles

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...

August 23, 2018

6 principles that help to design a robust Forest Information System

Articles

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...

July 5, 2018

Weak vs. Strong Sustainable Forest Management

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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...

April 27, 2018

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Tag: Forestry

Dead trees for healthy forests and ecosystems

OpenForests attended: Our Forests, Our Future – Forestry Conference, Brussels | 25-26 April 2019

Interactive Story Setting

Beyond the Canopy – About this podcast

OpenForests in Mongabay

OpenForests launches the forest project platform explorer.land

Failure as opportunity to think broad and deep

The Core Concept of Sustainability

6 principles that help to design a robust Forest Information System

Weak vs. Strong Sustainable Forest Management

Not all forests are the same: why planting trees isn’t the same as restoring a forest

Europe’s Heat Wave is a Nature Crisis

Carbono Biodiverso: Grupo Ecológico Sierra Gorda’s local carbon protocol brings transparency and community benefit to Mexico’s sub-national carbon market

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