Forest Management for biodiversity and resilience workshop

Close-to-nature management workshop 1

Join us on Thursday, April 23 from 10 am to 4 pm for a practical outdoor workshop, to explore forest biodiversity, learn its importance for forest resilience, health and vitality. You will learn how to carry out simple biodiversity potential surveys and how forest management can help enhance biodiversity to support a wide range of ecosystem services essential to society wellbeing.

In this specially designed outdoor workshop, you will learn about the range of flora fauna and fungi that inhabit or forests. We will explore connections between biodiversity and forest ecosystem functioning and what are the main forest characteristics that support high level of forest biodiversity. In particular during the workshop participants will train in new simple survey methodologies to help forest owners gage the biodiversity potential value of their forest and how this knowledge might inform future management in practice, to enhance biodiversity and resilience.

This workshop will take place in our in-forest marteloscope training facility at the Teagasc Oak Park Research Centre near Carlow Town.

Is it for me?

• I am Interested in the multipurpose value of my forest
• I want to learn more about forest biodiversity and forest resilience
• I want to learn how forest management can best enhance biodiversity in my forest
• I want to meet other forest owners, share my experience and hear from others

Book your place on the Close-to-nature Forest management workshop 1: Biodiversity & Resilience on Thursday, April 23

This event is organised by the Forestry Development Department of Teagasc in association with the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine.