Forest Management & Consultancy
Sylva Nova was created by Pierre Hermans,
active in the forest sector since 1994.
Its name reflects its purpose: sustainable forest management (sylva), constantly evolving (nova).
For a living, natural, and multifunctional forest
A well-managed forest simultaneously achieves a number of functions: protecting the environment and biodiversity, regulating the climate, contributing to our health, providing wood, creating the landscape…; none of these functions takes precedence over the others – all are essential to human life and its balance.
In order to appreciate the full value of forests and to make them even stronger within the context of climactic urgency, Sylva Nova strongly recommends a management based on the long term, on respect for naturalness and on diversity.
Sylva Nova practices a non-invasive forest management, totally avoiding both clear cutting and establishing planting records, favoring permanent cover and irregular growth, protecting and completing natural regeneration, encouraging a diversity of species perfectly adapted to the soil and local conditions.
‘Follow nature’s course, complete and speed up its work’ is more than ever the Sylva Nova’s approach.
In the short or long-term, Sylva Nova carries out various missions involving temperate forests, mainly in Europe:
- Development of sustainable management plans for private and public forests
- Reforestation and forest landscape restoration
- Implementation of forest certification processes
- Advice on forest policy and governance
Sylva Nova works with both the private and public sectors: private and institutional forest owners, governmental and non-governmental organizations (NGOs), international bodies, corporate sector, professional associations and think tanks…
Sylva Nova is characterized by its independence, its network of partners and contacts, its constantly-updated level of knowledge, its sense of ethics and its interest in geopolitical issues and international affairs related to the forest.