This is alist of forestresearch institutes around the world, by continent and country. It includes research institutions with a primary focus onforest science,forestry,forest management, and related fields.

This list isincomplete; you can help byadding missing items.(December 2011)

• Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR),Bogor, Indonesia
• Center for Tropical Forest Science,Panama City, Panama
• European Forest Institute,Joensuu, Finland
• International Union of Forest Research Organizations (IUFRO)Vienna, Austria

• Institut national de recherche forestière (INRF)(in French)

• Ethiopian Environment and Forest Research Institute

• Forestry Research Institute of Ghana

• Kenya Forestry Research Institute

• Forestry Research Institute of Malawi

• Forestry Research Institute of Nigeria

• Council for Scientific and Industrial Research
• Institute for Commercial Forestry Research
• Forestry and Agricultural Biotechnology Institute (FABI),University of Pretoria
• Forestry and Forest Products Research Center,Durban, "a joint venture betweenCSIR's Natural Resources and the Environment operating unit and theUniversity of KwaZulu-Natal"^[1]
• Merensky^[2]

• Institute of Tropical Forest Conservation

• Atlantic Forestry Centre^[3]
• Canadian Wood Fibre Centre^[4]
• Centre for Forest Biology, Victoria, British Columbia^[5]
• Great Lakes Forestry Centre, Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario^[6]
• Laurentian Forestry Centre^[7]
• Northern Forestry Centre^[8]
• Ontario Forest Research Institute
• Pacific Forestry Centre^[9]
• FPInnovations^[10]

• Instituto Forestal,Ministry of Agriculture
• Instituto de Bosques y Sociedad,Austral University of Chile

• International Institute of Tropical Forestry

• Centre for Agricultural Research in Suriname

• Forest Products Laboratory^[11]
• Institute for Resource Information Systems^[12]
• Institute of Forest Resources, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington (created by Washington State Legislature, 1947)^{[citation needed]}
• International Institute of Tropical Forestry^[13]
• Northern Research Station^[14]
• Oregon Forest Resources Institute
• Pacific Northwest Research Station^[15]
• Pacific Southwest Research Station^[16]
• Rocky Mountain Research Station^[17]
• Southern Research Station^[18]
• USDA Forest Service, Research and Development Branch

• Forest Research and Training Centre^[19] (formerly Department of Forest Research and Survey)

• Bangladesh Forest Research Institute (formerly Forest Products Research Laboratory)

• Advanced Research Centre for Bamboo and Rattan, Aizawl
• Arid Forest Research Institute, Jodhpur
• Centre for Forest Based Livelihood and Extension, Agarlata
• Centre for Forestry Research and Human Resource Development, Chhindwara
• Centre for Social Forestry and Eco-Rehabilitation, Prayagraj
• Forest College and Research Institute,Tamil Nadu Agricultural University,Mettupalayam^[20]
• Forest Research Institute, Dehradun
• Forest Research Institute, Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh Forest Department
• Gujarat Forest Research Institute
• Himalayan Forest Research Institute, Shimla
• Institute of Forest Biodiversity, Hyderabad
• Institute of Forest Genetics and Tree Breeding, Coimbatore
• Institute of Forest Productivity, Ranchi
• Institute of Wood Science and Technology, Bengaluru
• Kerala Forest Research Institute,Peechi,Thrissur
• Rain Forest Research Institute, Jorhat
• Tropical Forest Research Institute, Jabalpur
• Van Vigyan Kendra (Forest Science Centres)
• State Forest Research Institute, Chennai

• Yamanashi Forest Research Institute

• National Institute of Forest Science
• Tree-Ring Research Center, Chungbuk National University

• National Agriculture and Forestry Research Institute

• Forest Research Institute Malaysia
• Malaysia Palm Oil Board

• Forest Research Institute, affiliated with theUniversity of Forestry (Yezin)

• Pakistan Forest Institute, Peshawar

• Taiwan Forestry Research Institute

• Tajik State Forest Research Institute,Dushanbe, affiliated with theForestry Agency under theGovernment of Tajikistan

• Forest Restoration Research Unit, Chiang Mai

• Forestry Science Institute of Vietnam

• Federal Forest Research Centre Vienna^[21]

• Research Institute for Nature and Forest

• AgroParisTech Nancy

• Finnish Forest Research Institute (Metla)

• Bayerische Landesanstalt für Wald und Forstwirtschaft^[22]
• Forschungsanstalt für Waldökologie und Forstwirtschaft Rheinland-Pfalz^[23]
• Forstliche Versuchs- und Forschungsanstalt Baden-Württemberg^[24]
• Landesbetrieb Wald und Holz NRW - Lehr- und Versuchsforstamt Arnsberger Wald^[25]
• Landesforst Mecklenburg-Vorpommern - Forstliches Versuchswesen^[26]
• Landeskompetenzzentrum Forst Eberswalde (Brandenburg)^[27]
• Nordwestdeutsche Forstliche Versuchsanstalt (Niedersachsen, Hessen, Sachsen-Anhalt, Schleswig-Holstein)^[28]
• Sachsenforst - Kompetenzzentrum Wald und Forstwirtschaft^[29]
• Thünen-Institut - Institut für Waldökosysteme^[30]
• Thüringenforst - Forstliches Forschungs- und Kompetenzzentrum Gotha^[31]

• Forest Research Institute of Thessaloniki

• Hungarian Forest Research Institute

• Latvian State Forest Research Institute "Silava"^[32]

• Norwegian Forest Research Institute
• Norwegian Institute of Bioeconomy Research^[33]

• Forestry Engineering Academy,Saint Petersburg^[34]
• Saint Petersburg Forestry Research Institute, since 1929, Saint Petersburg^[35]
• Sukachev Institute of Forest,Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow

• Forest Research Instite,National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, Homel

• Forest Sciences Centre of Catalonia (CTFC)^[36]
• Forest Research Centre (INIA-CIFOR)^[37]

• Forestry Research Institute of Sweden (Skogforsk)

• Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research (WSL)^[38]

• Forest Research (agency), Forestry Commission
  • Aberystwyth Research Unit^[39]
  • Alice Holt Research Station^[40]
  • Northern Research Station^[41]

• Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO)

• Scion (Crown Research Institute)

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• Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), Rome
• International Forestry Resources and Institutions (IFRI) network, Michigan, US
• International Union of Forest Research Organizations (IUFRO), Vienna
• World Agroforestry Centre, Nairobi, Kenya
• World Forestry Congress

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