International Day of Forests: “Sustainable forest management combines resource use and biodiversity conservation”
The BOKU article for the International Day of Forests, written in German and accessible here, highlights how sustainable forest management can reconcile wood production, climate protection, and biodiversity conservation, using the Austrian Living Lab Wegscheid as a real-world testbed for new integrative practices. It showcases how Integrative Forest Management approaches – such as ecological landscape management, coordinated monitoring of habitat structures, and multi‑stakeholder Living Labs – operationalise the TRANSFORMIT vision of connecting use and conservation across Europe in practice.