New president at IBFRA

Rasmus Astrup at the Norwegian Forest and Landscape Institute has been elected president of the international forest research organization International Boreal Forest Research Association (IBFRA) . Astrup currently heads the work of the Department of Forest Resources at Forest and Landscape, where Climate Center and National Forest Inventory are important sections. 

The purpose of IBFRA is to develop research collaboration and knowledge sharing between countries , institutions and researchers in the areas covered by the northern, boreal forest belt which make up 25 percent of the world's forest cover and contains 45 percent of the world's standing forest biomass..  

For more information, click on the following link (in Norwegian):  http://www.skogoglandskap.no/nyheter/2013/norsk_forsker_ny_leder_i_organisasjon_for_nordlig_skogforskningssamarbeid