The BirdLife European Forest Task Force - Science, Advocacy, Education
FTF works to
- promote a vision of a European network of protected forests sufficiently large and strictly protected to prevent further extinction of forest species
- ensure that commercial forest management practices in Europe do not harm forests of high biological value
- support the recovery of biodiversity through restoration of intensively managed forests – both protected and commercial - to a more natural state
The FTF and BirdLife Partners work for forest protection through:
- Locating and mapping biologically important forests in Europe (www.birdlife.fi/forestmapping)
- Organising seminars on key forest protection issues
- Monitoring the effects of biodiversity enhancing measures in forests
- Informing forest owners about environmentally friendly forestry
- Promoting good quality, democratic certification schemes providing international and independent eco-labelling schemes for timber and timber products
- Creating links among BirdLife Partners and other NGOs
- Representing BirdLife’s viewpoint on environmentally benign forestry at international fora
- works with the EU on forest issues, and publishes a wide variety of information on forest research and advocacy