Forestry experimental and research institutes
The forestry experimental and research institutes (FVA) are the operational research institutions of the forest administrations . This means that, in contrast to the forestry faculties, the forestry experimental and research institutes are responsible for applied forestry research and, in particular, for forest monitoring. In this way, the German research institutes fulfill an indispensable mission, which serves to protect and research the forest ecosystem. Since the forest law is countries thing has (te) of each surface land in Germany such a device. Due to administrative reforms, the name FVA has meanwhile disappeared from the name of some FVAs.
Examples
- Lower Saxony Forest Research Institute
- Metla Forest Research Institute (Finland)
- Forestry experimental and research institute Baden-Württemberg
- Bavarian State Institute for Forests and Forestry