Waldwissen is an international, multilingual information and communication

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for a wide range of

forestry Forestry is the science and craft of creating, managing, planting, using, conserving and repairing forests, woodlands, and associated resources for human and environmental benefits. Forestry is practiced in plantations and natural stands. ...

topics.

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The Website www.waldwissen.net is published by the Forest Research Institute of Baden-Württemberg,

Freiburg Freiburg im Breisgau (; abbreviated as Freiburg i. Br. or Freiburg i. B.; Low Alemannic: ''Friburg im Brisgau''), commonly referred to as Freiburg, is an independent city in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. With a population of about 230,000 (as o ...

Germany Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG),, is a country in Central Europe. It is the most populous member state of the European Union. Germany lies between the Baltic and North Sea to the north and the Alps to the sou ...

(FVA), the Bavarian Forest Institute,

Freising Freising () is a university town in Bavaria, Germany, and the capital of the Freising ''Landkreis'' (district), with a population of about 50,000. Location Freising is the oldest town between Regensburg and Bolzano, and is located on the ...

(LWF), the Federal Research and Training Centre for Forests, Natural Hazards and Landscape,

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(BFW) and the

Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research The Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research (WSL, German: ''Eidgenössische Forschungsanstalt für Wald, Schnee und Landschaft'', French: ''Institut fédéral de recherches sur la forêt, la neige et le paysage'') is a Swi ...

, Birmensdorf, Switzerland (WSL). The network comprises forest research institutes, forest administrations, forest owner associations and other

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s offering access to expert knowledge. The interactive platform has established itself in Central Europe as the leading online-information source for a wide range of

and forest-related topics. In July 2023, over 2700 German-language and approx. 950 foreign-language articles were available.. In addition to the four publishing research institutes from

and Switzerland, a number of other partner institutions have contributed to www.waldwissen.net. All partners involved use their own resources for financing their editorial staff. each of the ten editorial offices compiles and edits expert information and then presents it on the web-portal. They cooperate with organisations such as the Swiss National Accident Insurance Fund, the

Federal Office for the Environment The Federal Office for the Environment (german: Bundesamt für Umwelt; french: Office fédéral de l'environnement; it, Ufficio federale dell'ambiente) is the Swiss environmental agency, a division of the Federal Department of Environment ...

, the Swiss Ornithological Station Sempach, the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences in Vienna, the Bavarian Forest Genetics Office (AWG) and the

Rottenburg University of Applied Forest Sciences The Rottenburg University of Applied Forest Sciences (in German: ''Hochschule für Forstwirschaft Rottenburg'') is a Fachhochschule (''university of applied sciences'') in Rottenburg am Neckar, in the German state of Baden-Württemberg. The speci ...

History

The Federal Research Institute (WSL) had the idea of making relevant practical knowledge from forestry and environmental science available for everyone in an easily accessible forum. In the summer of 2003, the prototype www.waldwissen.ch went online. The experience gained from www.waldwissen.ch was very positive. At the same time, the four research institutes involved in forest research FVA, LWF, BFW, WSL intensified their efforts to develop a joint forest information system with contents from international sources. This project was part of the KnowForAlp Initiative comprising in total 19 research institutes from seven countries. From this initiative emerged www.waldwissen.net which went online on 16 February 2005. Since then, the number of contributions to www.waldwissen.net and the supply of forestry expertise has continued to grow. In 2007, www.waldwissen.net was awarded the Schweighofer Innovation Award for Forestry with a total of 50.000 euros in prize money. The internationality, multilingualism and the professionalism of the contributions to www.waldwissen.net made an especially favourable impression on the jury. The prize money was used for the further development and the redesign of the website. Since mid-2015 www.waldwissen.net is also available as a

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