About Probos
The Probos Foundation is committed to creating a healthy living environment for people and nature. Healthy and resilient forests are crucial for achieving this goal. Probos always puts the forest first and works tirelessly on promoting sustainable forest management and forest extension both in the Netherlands and worldwide.
Probos excels at signalling new developments, identifying knowledge gaps, developing and collecting associated knowledge and the translation of this knowledge into practical tools for policy makers, forester and nature conservationists and organisations operating in the timber market.
Probos is a knowledge institute that was established in 1965. The team consists of motivated professionals who primarily focus on four fields of works, each with their own challenging goals.
| 1. | Data provisioning: |
| Probos is the data authority in the field of forests and forest products. | |
| 2. | Climate-smart forestry: |
| Probos develops and makes available practical (forest management-related) knowledge and tools contributing to climate-smart and resilient forests. | |
| 3. | More forests and trees: |
| Probos contributes substantially to the forest extension ambition (realisation by means of both active afforestation and spontaneous forest expansion), by developing and sharing knowledge, tools, experiences and best practices. Not only in the fields of forest and planting material, but also in terms of spatial integration, land use combinations and costs and benefits. | |
| 4. | Sustainable value chains and valuing forest ecosystem services: |
| Probos contributes to forest conservation and to increasing the area of demonstrably sustainably managed forests globally by: - Increasing the market share of sustainably produced timber and other wood products in the Netherlands and Europe; - Increasing the value of forests by developing income from products and services other than timber (non-timber forest products). |
Probos is a non-profit organisation without fixed sources of funding. The team works on a project basis and combines a business attitude with the ideal of promoting sustainable forest management. Connections with other fields of work come to be by working together intensively with different organisations.
A Supervisory Board supervises the financial policy and general state of affairs of the foundation. An Advisory Board gives Probos content-related and strategic counsel.
