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Public relations

Public relations

With regard to its links with forests and forestry, the public is divided into different groups with which we communicate in different ways and organize various activities to raise awareness of the importance of forests. It is also informed about the events related to forests and work of the Slovenia Forest Service.

Public relations are being developed by the following activities:

popularization of forests, defined as spreading of popular knowledge and information about forests and raising awareness of the public as to the importance of forests, is determined by the Act on Forests. It is carried out by means of various activities for different target groups. On the whole, these activities can be divided into those where the staff of the Slovenia Forest Service are in personal contact with people (guiding on forest educational trails, tourist and other educational routes, excursions, exhibitions, lectures, conferences, forest week, round-table discussions and other events), media and written materials, electronic materials, video materials and the Internet,

informing the public about the work of the Slovenia Forest Service and of interesting topical events related to forests. The public is most often informed by media (press conferences, communiqués, Internet). To inform internal public the internal paper is published and the Intranet is being developed,

providing information of public interest in accordance with the provisions of the Act on Access to Information of Public Interest, passed in Slovenia in 2003. The system and practice of providing this information with regard to the activities of the Slovenia Forest Service are being developed.

business communication with associates, these being organizations and institutions with which the Slovenia Forest Service collaborates on formal ground (regulations, contracts) or on the basis of informal mutual interests.

Education and training of forest owners

The Slovenia Forest Service develops its relations with forest owners through the following activities:

individual counselling for forest owners is carried out mostly in personal contacts between the district forester and the forest owner when marking trees for felling, preparing the annual forestry work plan and issuing ordinances for silvicultural work, forest protection work and others for forest owners. Advice can also be provided by telephone (the number of the Slovenia Forest Service free of charge), by email, on the Slovenia Forest Service website and by direct mail in the form of answers to forest owners’ questions.

group training of forest owners is performed by courses on forestry technique, in workshops on silviculture and forest protection, by lectures and excursions for forest owners, study circles, exhibitions at fairs and other events.

education by printed, electronic and video materials,

education by media (radio, television).

Forest educational trails

Forest educational trails are marked trails through the forest, equipped with educational texts. They serve to raise public awareness and improve understanding of the forest and help the public develop a more responsible attitude to it. The two first forest educational trails were established in 1974 and there are currently more than 80 of them in Slovenia. We provide professionally guided tours for groups of visitors, but recently more and more attention on forest educational trails has been given to the interpretation of forest and nature.

Mašun Forest House Information and educational centre

At the foot of Snežnik The Mašun forest house is a new acquisition of the Slovenia Forest Service, in particular of the Postojna regional unit. The former foresters’ house is now a modern, well-equipped educational and information centre, designed for various presentations of forests, forestry, wildlife and hunting on Snežnik and also in a wider area. A multimedia hall and other rooms offer possibilities for various exhibitions, educational activities and business meetings. In the Mašun forest house there is a special presentation of brown bear, created and co-financed within the EU project Life – nature: Conservation of large carnivores in Slovenia, Phase I – Brown bear. The nearby Mašun educational trail complements the mission of the centre.