{"id":18516,"date":"2025-08-06T10:56:36","date_gmt":"2025-08-06T08:56:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/integratenetwork.org\/?p=18516"},"modified":"2025-08-06T15:52:39","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T13:52:39","slug":"local-voices-shape-forest-future-auberive-case-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/integratenetwork.org\/2025\/08\/06\/local-voices-shape-forest-future-auberive-case-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Local voices shape forest future: Auberive case study"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In Auberive, northeastern France, a shift in forest management began in the 1990s when local communities raised concerns over increasing clearcuts and their impact on the landscape. These conversations marked the beginning of a long-term transition towards more ecological and socially responsive forest practices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Over the past two decades, Auberive has adopted <strong>Continuous Cover Forestry (CCF)<\/strong> \u2013 a close-to-nature approach that promotes native species, uneven-aged structures, and integrates ecological, economic and social values.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This transformation follows four guiding principles:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Prioritising the quality and value of individual trees<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Continuous natural regeneration with a mix of species, ages and structures<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Selective harvesting based on balance and wood quality<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Stable income generation while minimising management costs<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Auberive\u2019s example demonstrates that ecological and economic goals can align, and that forest management can evolve through dialogue with local communities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This case is featured in the book <em>How to balance forestry and biodiversity conservation: A view across Europe<\/em> <em>(2020)<\/em> \u2013 a joint publication by the <a href=\"https:\/\/efi.int\/\">European Forest Institute (EFI)<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsl.ch\/en\/\">Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research (WSL)<\/a>. It is developed within the framework of the <a href=\"https:\/\/integratenetwork.org\/\">Integrate Network<\/a> and has been written by more than 150 researchers and practitioners from 50 institutions and 19 countries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Read the full book <a href=\"https:\/\/forbiodiv.wsl.ch\/en\/the-book\/\">here<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-pdfjsblock-pdfjs-embed pdfjs-wrapper\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Authors of this case study<\/strong>: Jean-Jacques Boutteaux, Benoit Meheux, Yoan Paillet<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Photo: travelview \/ Adobe Stock<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Auberive, northeastern France, a shift in forest management began in the 1990s when local communities raised concerns over increasing clearcuts and their impact on the landscape. These conversations marked&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18517,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2,150],"tags":[27,160,24],"class_list":["post-18516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-environment","category-forestry","tag-biodiversity","tag-case-study","tag-forest-management"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/integratenetwork.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/integratenetwork.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/integratenetwork.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/integratenetwork.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/integratenetwork.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18516"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/integratenetwork.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18525,"href":"https:\/\/integratenetwork.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18516\/revisions\/18525"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/integratenetwork.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/integratenetwork.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/integratenetwork.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/integratenetwork.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}