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World Forestry Congress. The World Forestry Congress ( WFC) is the largest and most significant gathering of the world's forestry sector and it has been held every six years since 1926 under the auspices of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations, organized by the government of the host country. [ 1]
World Forestry Center Discovery Museum. The World Forestry Center is a nonprofit educational institution in Portland in the U.S. state of Oregon. Located near the Oregon Zoo in Washington Park, the organization was established in 1964 [citation needed] as the Western Forestry Center, with the actual building opening in 1971. [1][2]
A replacement museum was built in Portland's Washington Park and is today known as the World Forestry Center. [42] A few buildings from the fair remain standing today, including the Fairmount Hotel, the American Inn, and the National Cash Register Building (now the McMenamins St. Johns Theater and Pub). [43] [44]
21 March 2025. (2025-03-21) Frequency. annual. The International Day of Forests was established on the 21st day of March, by resolution of the United Nations General Assembly on November 28, 2013. [1] Each year, various events celebrate and raise awareness of the importance of all types of forests, and trees outside forests, for the benefit of ...
As a consequence, the “International Union of Forest Experiment Organizations” was founded in Eberswalde, Germany, in 1892. Originally, only Austria, Germany and Switzerland agreed that their forest experiment stations would join the Union. By the beginning of World War I, stations from 22 countries, including USA, Canada and Japan, had ...
CIFOR, which merged with World Agroforestry (known by the acronym ICRAF) on Jan. 1, 2019, [1] is the forestry and agroforestry research center of the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR), a network of 15 research centers around the world that focus on agricultural research for sustainable development, working ...
The Alaska–Yukon–Pacific Exposition, acronym AYP or AYPE, was a world's fair held in Seattle in 1909 publicizing the development of the Pacific Northwest. It was originally planned for 1907 to mark the 10th anniversary of the Klondike Gold Rush, but the organizers learned of the Jamestown Exposition being held that same year and rescheduled.
The Global Forest Information Service (GFIS) was an initiative of the Collaborative Partnership on Forests (CPF) and was a collaborative effort of 14 major forest-related international organizations, institutions and convention secretariat, aiming to maximize the value of all forest information resources and providers worldwide through the sharing of forest-related information through a single ...