There is so much to win!
We can do it right. We can create a future for these strange and lovely animals. This is a personal matter. But it is not only my personal matter. This is personal for each and every one of us. And...
We Strike for the Climate Every Day!
Having been started earlier this year by young climate activists skipping school in protest of the changing climate and its adverse effects, the FridaysForFuture movement has now grown so big that come Friday, the 20th of September 2019, a call...
4th World Congress on Agroforestry
Meet OpenForests at the World Congress on Agroforestry, 20 – 22 May, Montpellier, France. About the congress The Montpellier Fourth World Congress on Agroforestry addresses a wide range of key agroforestry research issues, gather facts and figures from developing and...
OpenForests: About, Vision, and Mission
We are often asked what is the core of our work and what are our goals and vision. In this short article, we want to give the answers. Who we are In 2011, Patrick Ribeiro, Alexander Watson, Stefan Haas have...
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
Carbon Credits and Certifications are not enough
Nature is more than a simple carbon sinking machine! Carbon credits are valuable but conceptual. A story that showcases the transformation of a degraded landscape into a green oasis is much more tangible than purely aligning success with the number...
Beyond the Canopy Podcast – From a cattle ranch to agroforestry
Interview with Juan Bronson, Izabal Agro-Forest, Guatemala. SUMMARY Can only industrial monoculture forest plantations yield high returns? In this episode, we are going to challenge this paradigm of either returns or sustainability. We will do that together with my Guest...
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...
Images in Trees
How imagination connects us with our environment. After 23 years of searching and discovering, my curiosity has only increased. Now I want to know everything! Paul Rolans As ecologists, natural resources managers, foresters and conservationists we are working in, and...
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...