Tasks

The Department of Forest Protection surveys the effects of biotic, abiotic, and anthropogenic damage factors on forests and elaborates relevant control strategies.

Information and advisory services for forest companies, forest authorities and private persons are essential elements of forest protection.

Items of great importance to forest protection include:

• Damage due to storm, snow, hail and frost
• Damage due to insect pests
• Damage by game and forest pasture
• Anthropogenic damage
• Air pollution
• Fungal diseases

Furthermore, the Department of Forest Protection takes over legal tasks for the protection of our forest ecosystems within the scope of the National Plant Protection Service.

Units 

• Entomology:  Dipl.-Ing. Hannes Krehan
• Phytopathology and Biochemistry:   Dr. Thomas Cech
• Plant analysis: Ing. Alfred Fürst  
• Air Pollution:  Dipl.-Ing. Dr. Friedl Herman
• Integrated Pest Management:  Dipl.-Ing. Bernhard Perny

Contact:

Seckendorff-Gudent-Weg 8, A-1130 Wien

Tel +43-1-878 38 / 1131

Fax +43-1-+43-1-878 38 /1250

Email: christian.tomiczek@bfw.gv.at