About us
The Icelandic Forest Service (IFS) is a governmental institution that works with and for the government, but also the public and other interested parties, on the subjects of research, development, consultation and distribution of knowledge within forestry. The institution is also Iceland's representative in forest-related cooperation with other countries. For over a century the IFS has been protecting and expanding the remaining native birchwoods in Iceland as well as executing afforestation projects and growing commercial forests on its lands situated in different locations throughout the country. In recent years, with ever clearer signs of global warming, carbon sequestration has become one of the most important drivers of new afforestation projects in Iceland.
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