This is a list of forest research institutes around the world, by continent and country. It includes research institutions with a primary focus on

forest science Forestry is the science and craft of creating, managing, planting, using, conserving and repairing forests, woodlands, and associated resources for human and environmental benefits. Forestry is practiced in plantations and natural stands. Th ...

forestry Forestry is the science and craft of creating, managing, planting, using, conserving and repairing forests, woodlands, and associated resources for human and environmental benefits. Forestry is practiced in plantations and natural stands. ...

forest management Forest management is a branch of forestry concerned with overall administrative, legal, economic, and social aspects, as well as scientific and technical aspects, such as silviculture, protection, and forest regulation. This includes management fo ...

, and related fields.

International

Center for International Forestry Research The Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) is a non-profit scientific research organization that conducts research on the use and management of forests with a focus on tropical forests in developing countries. CIFOR, which merged wi ...

(CIFOR), Bogor, Indonesia *

Center for Tropical Forest Science The Center for Tropical Forest Science, or CTFS, was a consortium of forest researchers who pursued long-term research on tree populations using comparable census method. The work developed out of a study of 50 hectares of forest on Barro Colorado I ...

Panama City Panama City ( es, Ciudad de Panamá, links=no; ), also known as Panama (or Panamá in Spanish), is the capital and largest city of Panama. It has an urban population of 880,691, with over 1.5 million in its metropolitan area. The city is locat ...

, Panama * European Forest Institute,

Joensuu Joensuu (; krl, Jovensuu; ) is a city and municipality in North Karelia, Finland, located on the northern shore of Lake Pyhäselkä (northern part of Lake Saimaa) at the mouth of the Pielinen River (''Pielisjoki''). It was founded in 1848. The ...

, Finland * International Union of Forest Research Organizations (IUFRO)

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, Austria

Africa

Algeria

* Institut national de recherche forestière (INRF) '

Ethiopia

Ethiopian Environment and Forest Research Institute Ethiopians are the native inhabitants of Ethiopia, as well as the global diaspora of Ethiopia. Ethiopians constitute #Ethnicity, several component ethnic groups, many of which are closely related to ethnic groups in neighboring Eritrea and othe ...

Ghana

* Forestry Research Institute of Ghana

Kenya

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Malawi

* Forestry Research Institute of Malawi

Nigeria

* Forestry Research Institute of Nigeria

South Africa

* Council for Scientific and Industrial Research *

Institute for Commercial Forestry Research An institute is an organisational body created for a certain purpose. They are often research organisations (research institute, research institutes) created to do research on specific topics, or can also be a professional body. In some countr ...

* Forestry and Agricultural Biotechnology Institute (FABI),

University of Pretoria The University of Pretoria ( af, Universiteit van Pretoria, nso, Yunibesithi ya Pretoria) is a multi-campus public research university in Pretoria, the administrative and de facto capital of South Africa. The university was established in 1908 ...

* Forestry and Forest Products Research Center,

Durban Durban ( ) ( zu, eThekwini, from meaning 'the port' also called zu, eZibubulungwini for the mountain range that terminates in the area), nicknamed ''Durbs'',Ishani ChettyCity nicknames in SA and across the worldArticle on ''news24.com'' from ...

, "a joint venture between CSIR's Natural Resources and the Environment operating unit and the

University of KwaZulu-Natal The University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN) is a university with five campuses in the province of KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa. It was formed on 1 January 2004 after the merger between the University of Natal and the University of Durban-Westville. ...

" * Merensky

Uganda

* Institute of Tropical Forest Conservation

Americas

Canada

* Atlantic Forestry Centre * Canadian Wood Fibre Centre * Centre for Forest Biology, Victoria, British Columbia * Great Lakes Forestry Centre, Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario * Laurentian Forestry Centre * Northern Forestry Centre * Ontario Forest Research Institute * Pacific Forestry Centre * FPInnovations

Chile

* Instituto Forestal,

Ministry of Agriculture An agriculture ministry (also called an) agriculture department, agriculture board, agriculture council, or agriculture agency, or ministry of rural development) is a ministry charged with agriculture. The ministry is often headed by a minister ...

* Instituto de Bosques y Sociedad, Austral University of Chile

Puerto Rico

International Institute of Tropical Forestry The International Institute of Tropical Forestry () is a program of the United States Forest Service that was founded in 1939. It is headquartered in Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico, on the grounds of the University of Puerto Rico's Agricultural Exper ...

Suriname

* Centre for Agricultural Research in Suriname

United States

Forest Products Laboratory The Forest Products Laboratory (FPL) is the national research laboratory of the United States Forest Service, which is part of USDA. Since its opening in 1910, the FPL has provided scientific research on wood, wood products and their commercial us ...

* Institute for Resource Information Systems * Institute of Forest Resources, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington (created by Washington State Legislature, 1947) * International Institute of Tropical Forestry * Northern Research Station *

Oregon Forest Resources Institute The Oregon Forest Resources Institute (OFRI) is a state agency that according to ''Oregon Public Broadcasting'' and ''The Oregonian'' operates as the timber industry's de facto lobbying organization in Oregon. History OFRI was created by the Oreg ...

* Pacific Northwest Research Station * Pacific Southwest Research Station * Rocky Mountain Research Station * Southern Research Station * USDA Forest Service, Research and Development Branch

Asia

Nepal

* Forest Research and Training Centre (formerly Department of Forest Research and Survey)

Bangladesh

* Bangladesh Forest Research Institute (formerly Forest Products Research Laboratory)

India

Advanced Research Centre for Bamboo and Rattan Advanced Research Centre for Bamboo and Rattan (ARCBR)http://www.icfre.gov.in/UserFiles/File/Institute-RFRI-2011/2012/Report-ARCBR-26Mar12.pdf Aizawl was established in 2004 as an advanced research centre under the Indian Council of Forestry ...

, Aizawl *

Arid Forest Research Institute Arid Forest Research Institute (AFRI) is a research institute situated in Jodhpur, Rajasthan, India. The institute conducts scientific research in forestry in order to provide technologies to increase the vegetative cover and to conserve biod ...

, Jodhpur * Centre for Forest Based Livelihood and Extension, Agarlata * Centre for Forestry Research and Human Resource Development, Chhindwara * Centre for Social Forestry and Eco-Rehabilitation, Prayagraj * Forest College and Research Institute,

Tamil Nadu Agricultural University Tamil Nadu Agricultural University (TNAU) is the state agricultural university of Tamil Nadu located in Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India. History The Tamil Nadu Agricultural University had its genesis from establishment of an agricultural sc ...

, Mettupalayam * Forest Research Institute, Dehradun * Forest Research Institute, Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh Forest Department * Gujarat Forest Research Institute *

Himalayan Forest Research Institute Himalayan Forest Research Institute (HFRI) is a Research institute situated in Shimla in Himachal Pradesh. It works under the Indian Council of Forestry Research and Education (ICFRE) of the Ministry of Environment and Forests, Govt. of India. ...

, Shimla * Institute of Forest Biodiversity, Hyderabad * Institute of Forest Genetics and Tree Breeding, Coimbatore * Institute of Forest Productivity, Ranchi * Institute of Wood Science and Technology, Bengaluru *

Kerala Forest Research Institute The Kerala Forest Research Institute (KFRI) is an organisation based in Peechi, in Thrissur, India. It was established in 1975 by the Government of Kerala as part of its Science and Technology Department, and in 2003 became part of the Kerala ...

Peechi Peechi Dam thrissur is situated outside Thrissur city in Kerala, India. The dam was started as an irrigation project for the surrounding villages in Thrissur. At the same time, it catered the drinking water needs of the population of Thrissur ...

Thrissur Thrissur (), formerly Trichur, also known by its historical name Thrissivaperur, is a city and the headquarters of the Thrissur district in Kerala, India. It is the third largest urban agglomeration in Kerala after Kochi and Kozhikode, and t ...

Rain Forest Research Institute Rain Forest Research Institute (RFRI) is a research institute situated in Jorhat in Assam. It works under the Indian Council of Forestry Research and Education (ICFRE) of the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, Government of In ...

, Jorhat * Tropical Forest Research Institute, Jabalpur *

Van Vigyan Kendra Van Vigyan Kendra (VVK) or Forest Science Centres (FSC) has been established by Indian Council of Forestry Research and Education (ICFRE) of the Ministry of Environment and Forests, Govt. of India. It intends to help disseminate various technolo ...

(Forest Science Centres) * State Forest Research Institute, Chennai

Japan

Yamanashi Forest Research Institute Yamanashi can refer to: * Yamanashi Prefecture, a Japanese prefecture with 888,170 people * Yamanashi, Yamanashi, a Japanese city with 39,631 people * Joseph Yamanashi, a recurring character on ''MADtv'' played by Bobby Lee * Yamanashi, Japanese f ...

Korea

* National Institute of Forest Science
Tree-Ring Research Center, Chungbuk National University

Lao P.D.R.

National Agriculture and Forestry Research Institute National may refer to: Common uses * Nation or country ** Nationality – a ''national'' is a person who is subject to a nation, regardless of whether the person has full rights as a citizen Places in the United States * National, Maryland, c ...

Malaysia

* Forest Research Institute Malaysia * Malaysia Palm Oil Board

Myanmar (Burma)

* Forest Research Institute, affiliated with the University of Forestry (Yezin)

Pakistan

* Pakistan Forest Institute, Peshawar

Taiwan

Taiwan Forestry Research Institute The Taiwan Forestry Research Institute (TFRI; ) a research institute under the Council of Agriculture of the Taiwan (ROC) dealing with forest. History Empire of Japan TRFI was originally established as a nursery on 6 January 1896 during the Ja ...

Tajikistan

Tajik State Forest Research Institute Tajik, Tadjik, Tadzhik or Tajikistani may refer to: * Someone or something related to Tajikistan * Tajiks, an ethnic group in Tajikistan, Afghanistan and Uzbekistan * Tajik language, the official language of Tajikistan * Tajik (surname) * Tajik cu ...

Dushanbe Dushanbe ( tg, Душанбе, ; ; russian: Душанбе) is the capital and largest city of Tajikistan. , Dushanbe had a population of 863,400 and that population was largely Tajik. Until 1929, the city was known in Russian as Dyushambe (ru ...

, affiliated with the Forestry Agency under the Government of Tajikistan

Thailand

* Forest Restoration Research Unit, Chiang Mai

Vietnam

Forestry Science Institute of Vietnam Forestry is the science and craft of creating, managing, planting, using, conserving and repairing forests, woodlands, and associated resources for human and environmental benefits. Forestry is practiced in plantations and natural Stand level ...

Europe

Austria

Federal Forest Research Centre Vienna Federal or foederal (archaic) may refer to: Politics General *Federal monarchy, a federation of monarchies *Federation, or ''Federal state'' (federal system), a type of government characterized by both a central (federal) government and states or ...

Belgium

Research Institute for Nature and Forest Research is "creative and systematic work undertaken to increase the stock of knowledge". It involves the collection, organization and analysis of evidence to increase understanding of a topic, characterized by a particular attentiveness t ...

Finland

Finnish Forest Research Institute The Finnish Forest Research Institute ( fi, Metsäntutkimuslaitos, sv, Skogsforskningsinstitutet), known as Metla, is a subordinate agency to the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry of the Government of Finland. It has statutory duties to promo ...

(Metla)

Germany

* Bayerische Landesanstalt für Wald und Forstwirtschaft * Forschungsanstalt für Waldökologie und Forstwirtschaft Rheinland-Pfalz * Forstliche Versuchs- und Forschungsanstalt Baden-Württemberg * Landesbetrieb Wald und Holz NRW - Lehr- und Versuchsforstamt Arnsberger Wald * Landesforst Mecklenburg-Vorpommern - Forstliches Versuchswesen * Landeskompetenzzentrum Forst Eberswalde (Brandenburg) * Nordwestdeutsche Forstliche Versuchsanstalt (Niedersachsen, Hessen, Sachsen-Anhalt, Schleswig-Holstein) * Sachsenforst - Kompetenzzentrum Wald und Forstwirtschaft * Thünen-Institut - Institut für Waldökosysteme * Thüringenforst - Forstliches Forschungs- und Kompetenzzentrum Gotha

Hungary

Hungarian Forest Research Institute

Latvia

* Latvian State Forest Research Institute "Silava"

Norway

Norwegian Forest Research Institute Norwegian, Norwayan, or Norsk may refer to: *Something of, from, or related to Norway, a country in northwestern Europe *Norwegians, both a nation and an ethnic group native to Norway *Demographics of Norway *The Norwegian language, including the ...

* Norwegian Institute of Bioeconomy Research

Russia

* Forestry Engineering Academy,

Saint Petersburg Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ...

* Saint Petersburg Forestry Research Institute, since 1929, Saint Petersburg * Sukachev Institute of Forest,

Russian Academy of Sciences The Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS; russian: Росси́йская акаде́мия нау́к (РАН) ''Rossíyskaya akadémiya naúk'') consists of the national academy of Russia; a network of scientific research institutes from across ...

, Moscow

Belarus

Forest Research Instite
National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, Homel

Spain

Forest Sciences Centre of Catalonia A forest is an area of land dominated by trees. Hundreds of definitions of forest are used throughout the world, incorporating factors such as tree density, tree height, land use, legal standing, and ecological function. The United Nations' ...

(CTFC) * Forest Research Centre (INIA-CIFOR)

Sweden

Forestry Research Institute of Sweden The Forestry Research Institute of Sweden ( sv, Skogsbrukets forskningsinstitut), or Skogforsk, is a research institute headquartered in Uppsala, jointly financed by the members of the Sweden, Swedish forestry industry and the Government of Sweden, ...

(Skogforsk)

Switzerland

* Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research (WSL)

United Kingdom

Forest Research The Forestry Commission is a non-ministerial government department responsible for the management of publicly owned forests and the regulation of both public and private forestry in England. The Forestry Commission was previously also respons ...

(agency), Forestry Commission ** Aberystwyth Research Unit ** Alice Holt Research Station ** Northern Research Station

Oceania

Australia

Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) is an Australian Government agency responsible for scientific research. CSIRO works with leading organisations around the world. From its headquarters in Canberra, CSIRO ...

(CSIRO)

New Zealand

* Scion (Crown Research Institute)

References

External links

*
FAO Forest Research Institutions Database (2006)
{{Forestry by country

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