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Medvednica Nature Park team repeats outdoor event success!
After last year's success, Medvednica Naure Park team organised another outdoor events day to raise visitors' awareness of the importance of forest ecosystem services.
“It is fundamental for everyone to understand what forests provide every day”
Giulia Amato
Project officer
Etifor, Italy
“We need to understand how and why forests might be important for others”
Constanza Parra
Professor Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences
KU Leuven - University of Leuven, Belgium
“Being able to use attractive nature areas is essential for the tourism”
Liisa Tyrväinen
Research professor on nature-based tourism and recreation
Natural Resources Institute Finland (LUKE), Finland
“We have to make decisions that bear in mind ‘people’, ‘planet’ and ‘profit’ – ‘the triple P approach’”
Tom Embo
Director
Natuurinvest (OC-ANB), Belgium
“The path to innovation on forest ecosystem services is a combination of preciseness, adapted management, creativity and communication”
Urs Schroff
Project leader
Pan Bern AG, Switzerland
“The survival of mankind depends on nature and a healthy environment, with forests having a big role in the process”
Martina Jurjević Varga
Chief ranger
Public Institution Nature Park Medvednica, Croatia
“The value of forest ecosystem services has been noticed and it is growing”
Juhani Pyykkönen
Senior adviser bioeconomy
The Finnish Forest Centre (SMK), Finland
“It’s not only about fighting climate change”
Carlos Uriagereka Larrazabal
Chief of the Forest Service of Bizkaia
Diputacion Foral de Bizkaia DFB, Provincial County of Bizkaia, Spain
“SINCERE will provide a unique opportunity to collaborate with both academic and practice partners all over Europe”
Thomas Lundhede
Associate Professor in Environmental Economics
The University of Copenhagen, Denmark
“We need to increase the interconnection between society’s demands and forest ecosystem services provision”
Mario Torralba
Postdoctoral researcher
The University of Kassel, Germany
“Academics have the important role to provide policy makers and business managers with concrete instruments, models and guidelines”
Paola Gatto
Associate Professor
The University of Padova (UNIPD), Italy