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Project name |
Old-Growth forests and Veteran Trees for Biodiversity and Resilient Landscapes |
| Acronym | RESILIENT TREES |
| Project coordinator | Institute of Bioeconomy - National Research Council of Italy |
| Project partner | Czech University of Life Science, Prague – Faculty of Forestry and Wood Sciences |
| Investigator | doc. RNDr. Jan Hofmeister, Ph.D. |
| Total budget | 1 431 340 EUR |
| Budget of FLD | 199 775 EUR |
| ERDF financial contribution to CZU | 159 820 EUR |
| Co-financing by MMR | 19 978 EUR |
| Co-financing by CZU | 19 978 EUR |
| Implementation period | 5/2025 – 7/2029 |
| Name of programme | Interreg Europe |
The aim of the project is to increase nature conservation and biodiversity and to implement new strategies and policies relating to old forests and old trees. Old trees are key structures, elements that have a disproportionately positive impact on the ecosystem in which they occur. Climate change and the intensity of land use threaten old trees, and their successors are becoming rare. Old-growth forests face similar threats across Europe. These forests are rare, small, and fragmented, accounting for less than 3 % of total forest area. Although there have been significant improvements in EU environmental policy in recent decades, forest degradation remains a key issue and biodiversity loss continues at an unprecedented rate. In order to restore and preserve biodiversity and ecosystem functionality, we must work to implement new EU forest strategies to effectively maintain larger networks of old forests and trees.
The FLD is collaborating on this project as a project partner alongside eight other partners from six European countries. The Institute of Bioeconomy - National Research Council of Italy is acting as the project coordinator.