Welcoming Preeya – a new Phd candidate from Thailand

Hello! My name is Preeyaphat Chaiklang, or you can call me “Preeya”. I am from Thailand. I joined the Chair of Tropical and International Forestry in April 2023 as a DAAD doctoral candidate under the “Resource Nexus for Sustainability Transformations (NEXtra) programme.” The programme is a joint one between Technische Universität Dresden and the United

Welcoming Lwin – a new PhD candidate from Myanmar

Hello everyone, I am Lwin Thuzar Nyein. I come from Myanmar. I joined the Chair of Tropical and  International Forestry in April 2023 as a doctoral candidate for the Joint Ph.D. Programme in Integrated Management of Water, Soil, and Waste, jointly offered by the United Nations University Institute for Integrated Management of Material Fluxes and

The Spring internship in Unitäts-Forstverwaltung

With the end of our first semester in Germany, winter vacations came, and for us, the best idea to enjoy them was to invest some time in learning about German Forest Management. Since the winter of 2021, we tried to make some contact within the MSc Tropical-Forestry network for an internship or volunteer stay in

Students elaborating business models of forest organizations

In the module “Forest Organizations and Management”, our MSc students had the task to elaborate business models of various forest organizations. In a course of two days, the students came to the campus in Tharandt to conduct group work. This was the only chance in this summer semester that the master students returned to the

Introducing the CamForst project: Sustainable Forest Management in Cameroon

Accept greetings from Jude Kimengsi, Principal Investigator of the CamForst Project. CamForst is a three-year collaborative research project titled: “Past customs, current law: Analyzing the Effects of Endogenous and Exogenous Institutions on Sustainable Forest Management in Cameroon”.  The project presents a justified starting point in the Congo Basin forest of Africa, of which a substantial

First MSc thesis within the FLOURISH project completed

Hi everyone. I am Ta Quoc Truong – a now-former Master student in Tropical Forestry at TU Dresden. In this summer semester, I conducted my research on lung bamboo (Bambusa longissima sp.nov) – an endemic bamboo species in my country – Vietnam. My research took place within the FLOURISH project. Lung bamboo is a clump-type bamboo species