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^{Photo Credit: Ida Wallin}

by Pip Howard @Europeantrees, Director of Forestcomms UK – a partner in the EU Seventh Framework project HERCULES (HERitage in CULtural LandscapES) 

^{Photo credit: Andrew Heald}

By Andrew Heald, Natural Resources Consultant

There is an old joke that if you want 3 opinions ask 2 foresters; well if you ask the same foresters to define “sustainable forest management” then you will probably get a lot more than 3 opinions and the usual response is “Well, it’s complicated; and it depends.”

However most definitions of sustainability tend to include:

^{Vilhelimna forest in Sweden (Photo: Ida Wallin)}

By Gediminas Jasinevicius , Researcher at EFI's Sustainability and Climate Change Unit

By Alexandru Giurca, MSc European Forestry

Will EU regulations actually protect rainforest, or will the timber only find new markets? Bwindi mountains, Uganda. Photo Mats Hannerz.