What should a Healthy Forest Region commit to?

Date: 08.04.2025
In a series of four workshops — the so-called “cupcake workshops” — we worked to define what makes a region a Healthy Forest Region. Subject to further refinement, we reached the following conclusions. Following the HFR Guiding Action Principles, a Healthy Forest Region should:

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  1. Implement an ecosystem-based, close-to-nature forest management and ecosystem-specific biodiversity conservation.
  2. Acknowledge the value of the full range of forest ecosystem services for regional human well-being, and their potential to create secondary benefits.
  3. Support, organise and/or conduct research and monitoring of the health and ecosystem services of the regional forests 
  4. Integrate the education of different stakeholder groups about forest ecosystems and their services.
  5. Consider regionality, social-ecological transition, forest health and human well-being in the development and adaptation of human infrastructure.
  6. Provide diverse opportunities for civil society and other relevant actors to participate in the decision-making and implementation process, supporting the idea of an HFR.
  7. Engage in international cooperation and exchange with other HFRs in a network.