forests

The New Forest is declared a royal forest under King William I of England.

The American diplomat and philologist George Perkins Marsh publishes Man and Nature.

The UN Conference for Environment and Development (UNED), known as the first “Earth Summit,” takes place in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Increased European demand for rubber leads to the destruction of forests in West and Central Africa.

Wangari Maathai, an environmentalist from Kenya, becomes the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize.

The world’s first forestry school, located in the Saxon city of Tharandt, attracts students from all over Europe.

In his 1791 work, Georg Ludwig Hartig advocates a new strategy for sustainable forest management.

One of the first comprehensive forest surveys takes place in the duchy of Saxe-Weimar.

The model calls for the inclusion of diverse plant species at various stages of growth in forests with a view to reproducing the conditions of an indigenous forest.

Wilhelm Gottfried Moser formulates the basic principle of “sustainable forest management.”