Regional contacts

Slovenian Forestry Institute
Nike Krajnc ()

Slovenia Forest Service
Andrej Breznikar ()

Read the feature in SIMWOOD's April 2016 newsletter

Find out about:

• SIMWOOD's work in the region
• the focus study and pilot project
• recent natural disasters in Slovenian forests and their consequences
• quality wood auction – a promising practice for better wood mobilisation

28.08.2015

Listen to our broadcast on Radio Ognjišče: Izboljsanje dohodka v gozdovih [How to increase income from forests - in Slovenian]

29.05.2015

Listen to our broadcast on Radio Ognjišče: Ekonomika negovalnih ukrepov [Economic aspects of tending forests - in Slovenian]

13.01.2014

SIMWOOD - trajnosten in inovativen pristop k mobilizaciji lesa
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Specific situation

• Strong forest administration (through Slovenia Forest Service).
• Important private forest ownership (more than 75% of all forests).
• Large unused resource potential - actual felling in Slovenian forests (2011) is only 70% of allowable cut prescribed with forest management plans.
• Forest owners associations are rare, cooperation is low - lack of tradition, state wide forest function planning from SFS within the forest management planning.

Main challenges

• Fragmented ownership, lack of professional organisation and cooperation of forest owners.
• Weak forest-based industry and its connections with wood resources.
• High production costs in private forest sector