Michal Vanco

News

Bill Mason, has passed away unexpectedly over the weekend. Bill has been CCFG Chair for over 10 years and has provided kind and gentle guidance.

New Board of Prosilva elected

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At the General Assemly of Pro Silva in Myjava, May 28th new board members were elected. Tomáš Vrška took over precidency, and Eckart Senitza will support him as vice president.

Guidelines on Closer-To-Nature Forest Management

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EU has published and translated guidelines on closer-to-nature forest mangement in all European languages.

Pro Silva Annual Meeting Slovakia 2024

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The next Annual Meeting of Pro Silva will be in Myjava (western Slovakia) from 28th to 31st May under the title "Upscaling close to nature practices for wider acceptancence"

Pro Silva Annual Meeting Ireland 2023

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The last Annual Meeting of Pro Silva was in Co.Wicklow (Ireland) under the title "transforming forests and forest cultures in a changing world" - you find new fotos, reports and videos

News from Portugal 2023

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Pro Silva Portugal reports several participations in projects

historical Pro Silva Annual Meetings

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Many of the historical Annual Meetings are documented online now. 9 meetings from 1990 to 2001 will be under reconstruction soon.

Pro Silva in Brussels at European Commisson

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Pro Silva was invited as a European organisation to Brussels for the conference "Forests for Biodiversity and Climate". The 30th anniversary event in September 2019 was also well received.

Exemplary Forests Network

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Pro Silva announces that is going to summarize and present all their exemplary forests all over Europe

Michal Vanco

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Contact Information

Ing. Michal Vanco

T. G. Masaryka 275/22
960 01 Zvolen
Slovakia

e-mail: delegat@prosilvaslovakia.sk

cellphone: +421-905-620198

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Secretary: Michal Vanco (Slovakia)

Michal Vanco graduated at Forestry faculty – Technical University in Zvolen. He currently works as a policy advisor at National Forest Centre in Slovakia, focusing on new EU policies related to forests (LULUCF, carbon removals, nature restoration, forest monitoring).

In past, Michal worked at secretariat of intergovernmental policy platform on forests - Forest Europe (Ministerial Conferences on the Protection of Forests in Europe) and led the Forest Europe secretariat in 2019-2020 covering topics such as adaptation of forests to climate change, employment in the forests sector, and international reporting on forests.

Michal also gained experience in implementation of international projects in the field of continuing education of foresters, occupational health and safety.

Michal has been a board member of Pro Silva Slovakia since 2022.