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“Les Nuits des Forêts” (The Forest Nights) is a french association founded in 2020, in the midst of
covid-19 pandemia. “Les Nuits des Forêts” were first and foremost born from a sense of urgency and a
desire to create links and exchanges around environmental and social issues related to forests. It
aims to sensibilize the public to forest issues by initiating a festival in june to promote the french
forest. Its dreams were quickly drawn : creating new places for people to reconnect to the living and
to the nature, imagining new stories and societal rituals that would allow us to live in harmony with
the forest and its resources, putting dialogue and wonder at the service of the struggles to be waged
to better inhabit our territories.

Country: FR France - Localisation: Paris - Email: contact@nuitsdesforets.com - Website - Facebook - Instagram

Every year in June “Les Nuits des Forêts” initiates a festival in which foresters, artists, and
private owners create events to promote their forest. It can be visits, plays, climate murals,
concerts, land art, drawing with children or conferences given by professionals. The main idea of the
festival was to put on cultural events in forests. Indeed, we think culture is a way of sharing ideas,
way of living, way of thinking and more broadly a way to open minds. Therefore, “Les Nuits des Forêts”
are first and foremost intended to pass on basic knowledge about forests, their biodiversity,
management and uses of wood, while raising awareness of the serious impact of climate change on these
essential ecosystems. This year, “Les Nuits des Forêts” is hosting more than 250 events all over the
country. By doing so, “Les Nuits des Forêts” gather all types of people to allow them to discover the
multiplicity of forest we have in France but also to help them discover the work of foresters, how we
can preserve biodiversity and trees in the forest while using the wood.

This year, the association is releasing its new project : the Wooding in Forest. Inspired by the
participative worksite in farms : the Wwoofing, the wooding is a participative worksite in forest to
help foresters do some tasks such as counting the leaves, measuring or planting the trees. This
volunteering activity was also thought as a way to carry out actions in the field in favour of more
resilient forests, encourage solidarity and transmission between the worlds of forestry and
citizenship, rural and urban, and of all generations.

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