Pinus pinea Resources

AFN although the Portuguese National Forestry Authority manages only a small part of the Portuguese forests its responsible for the rules and legislation in the Portuguese forest sector including the ones to be applied in the Portuguese stone pine forests.

FAO Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations is an organization looking at forestry issues from a global perspective.

INIA Instituto Nacional de Investigación y Tecnología Agraria y Alimentaria Biológicos is the Spanish State Laboratory that has the mission of pursuing research in the domains of the biological resources.

INRB Instituto Nacional dos Recursos Biológicos is the Portuguese State Laboratory that has the mission of pursuing research in the domains of the biological resources. As such, its policies are directed to the valuing of the Portuguese biological resources, protecting the national interests in harmonization with the common policies of the European Union.

ISA Insitituto Superior de Agronomia is the faculty of agricultural sciences of the Technical University of Lisbon. It is the first school in Portugal in agricultural sciences and related areas like forestry, food science, environment science, biology or landscape architecture.

IUFRO International Union of Forest Research Organizations is the Global Network for Forest Science Cooperation. This is one of the most important organizations in forest-related research.

UNAC UNAC is a union of the main institutions of Forestry landowners from the Portuguese Mediterranean area. It represents around 700,000 ha of agro-forestry areas and around 16,000 land owners.

University of Oxford The University of Oxford is one of the leading universities in the world.

UNSW The University of New South Wales, located in Sydney Australia, is one of Australia's largest and leading universities.