Social & Environmental

The Initiative is founded on the understanding that science cannot be addressed in a vacuum but rather must be developed in concert with societal understanding and needs. Extensive dialogues with stakeholders will be incorporated to better understand concerns, inform the science and regulatory efforts, and create a more informed citizenry about forest threats and opportunities to overcome these threats.

Social & Environmental groups of the FHI have developed the following resources:

• - Issues Work Group: addressing key questions, issues and concerns by stakeholders.
• - Principles Work Group: indentifying and integrating principles for responsible deployment of biotechnology to address current and emerging forest health threats.
• - Outreach & Communications Work Group: developing and executing a plan to solicit broad input and engage key stakeholders that result in broad stakeholder understanding and acceptance of the FHI. Watch the FHI introductory video