Five Students, One Mission: To Set-up a New Belgian Marteloscope
Belgian students setting up a Marteloscope close to their faculty in Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech faculty
For one semester, Simon Musin, Antoine Van Lede, Samuel Konsdorff, Louis Uytterhaegen and Tom Schriewer shared a mission: To figure out how to set up a new marteloscope close to their Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech faculty in Belgium.
But how does one set-up a 1-hectare forested, monitored, and mapped site, used to train forest managers, owners or students on the intersection of biodiversity conservation and timber production?
The Integrate Network sat down with Samuel, Tom, and Antoine to find out more.
A new Belgian marteloscope recently took shape thanks to a motivated team of students, who have spent one semester measuring, mapping, and labelling trees to turn a forest stand into a true outdoor classroom. Their work will support hands on training, dialogue and learning on how to balance biodiversity and timber production in practice – and further strengthen the Integrate Network’s marteloscope network across Europe.
Read and listen to how this next generation of forest professionals helped make integrative forest management more tangible on the ground.
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