Forest Therapy: Forestal health services, a new aim of Montagne Fiorentine

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Montagne Fiorentine Model Forest Association together with Castagno d’Andrea Visitors Center of the Foreste Casentinesi, Monte Falterona e Campigna National Park (in Tuscay, Italy) organize, for the next 18 October, a day of direct experience and an in-depth meeting on the preventive and therapeutic functions of the Forests in the splendid context of the beech woods of Mount Falterona. The event is called "Meditation and health in Forest" and aims to be the first step towards a more structured project.

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Call for Applications  to the Erasmus Mundus Master Programme MEDfOR: Mediterranean Forestry and Natural Resources Management

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The call will be open from October 1st to December 15th 2020.
The MEDfOR Programme is open to candidates from all over the world, who have a bachelor degree on Biological Sciences, Environmental and Earth Sciences, Mathematics, Economics, Engineering, Chemistry, Biochemistry or similar areas.
Erasmus Mundus scholarships will be available for the best ranked candidates.
More information at: www.medfor.eu
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“From the terraces to mountain huts, from the andenes of peru to the milpa of mexico: taking care of the highlands”

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In recent decades the highlands have seen a disastrous hemorrhage. Depopulation, abandonment and decline, often together with hydrological instability. Across the world, however, there are numerous example of good management, of care and love. There are lots of themese “on the plate”: mountain agriculture, which promotes local varieties as a sustainable resource; our ability to safeguard and pass down productive, constructive traditions; and human resilience, made of women and men who take care of these difficult lands, making a career out of it and even inventing new professions.
A Web Conference will be held on Sunday 11 October 2020, as part of "Terra Madre. Salone del Gusto ”, during which communities from all over the world will compare their experiences. The event will be held in English, French, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese.

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