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A functional monitoring network for Germany's moorland areas is now in place. The 155 measuring points in open land and forests were set up over the past five years by scientists from the Thünen Institute. Today, Thursday, they are submitting their report on the development phase to the Federal…

The Thünen Institute now has its own landscape laboratory, starting out with nine experimental fields. At the Trenthorst site (Schleswig-Holstein), models for future land use are being developed, researched, and tested on an area of 600 hectares. The researchers aim to overcome traditional forms of…

A person stands next to a young tree in front of a cow pasture, watching curiously.

New Forest Living Labs in the Harz Mountains and in Lower Bavaria: German forest and wood research is reorganising itself for the forests of the future. The SURVEY joint research project, coordinated by the Thünen Institute and the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ), brings together…

A river in the center of the picture, surrounded by low plants in the background, partly destroyed forest areas, branches of a deciduous tree protrude into the picture in the foreground.

The high precipitation in 2023 and 2024 benefited nature. Nevertheless, the forest condition did not improve. This shows the Forest Condition Report 2025, which the Federal Minister of Agriculture, Food and Regional Identity (BMLEH), Alois Rainer, presented today. The Thünen Institute of Forest…

Two people stand in front of microphones in the forest

ICP Forests was founded 40 years ago. The international cooperation programme was a direct response to the air pollution which has damaged forests in many regions of Europe. Since then, two extensive monitoring programmes have been used to collect data on the condition of the forests. This data not…

View of a wooded area with white upright pipes on the ground between the trees.

The Thünen Institute of Forest Ecosystems publishes for the first time national forest maps of Germany based on current satellite imagery and terrestrial data from the 2012 National Forest Inventory.