Forest Sentience Project in northern Finland

John Ryan and I are pleased to announce an important publication in support of the Gifts from the Sentient Forest Project work.

Gifts from the Sentient Forest: biocultural heritage and human-tree relations in Northern Finland Forests face myriad threats globally including in Northern Finland, a relatively remote region celebrated as Europe’s last wilderness. Alongside the increasing imperilment of forests, however, lies...

Good morning to everyone. John Ryan and I were informed earlier this morning that our joint publication Sensing, Speaking, Remembering: Arboreal Sentience and Tree-Human Communication in Northern Finland, which is based on our work with the Gifts from the Sentient Forest Project at the Sairaalaniemi peninsula, Rovaniemi and old forests at Äkäslompolo has now been published as FirstView in Australian Journal of Environmental Education! https://doi.org/10.1017/aee.2025.10096

Thank you to everyone who participated in the research.
With our best wishes - Francis Joy and John Ryan

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