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Updated on: 05/10/2023
The University of Bordeaux received a visit from His Majesty King Charles III of the United Kingdom during his stay in Bordeaux on Friday 22nd September 2023.
His Majesty King Charles III of the United Kingdom, well known for his commitment to environmental issues, spent almost an hour on Friday 22nd September visiting the University of Bordeaux's experimental forest.
This ten-hectare forest, located in Floirac on the site of the former Observatory, has been transformed since 2021 into a genuine open-air living laboratory.
The monarch was welcomed by the university president, Dean Lewis. He then had extensive discussions with the FORLand researchers - a major ten-year project led by Sylvain Delzon, research director at the BIOGECO laboratory (INRAE - Université de Bordeaux).
Their majesties @RoyalFamily are in @Forest_UB to discover the Forland research project, which aims to study the effects of climate change on trees. #VisiteRoyale #CharlesIII picture @gdphotosbdx pic.twitter.com/8a4F7aOfBR— University of Bordeaux (@univbordeaux_EN) September 22, 2023
Their majesties @RoyalFamily are in @Forest_UB to discover the Forland research project, which aims to study the effects of climate change on trees. #VisiteRoyale #CharlesIII picture @gdphotosbdx pic.twitter.com/8a4F7aOfBR
His Majesty the King was very interested, and is quite an expert on the subject. He created The Circular Bioeconomy Alliance in 2020, a sort of foundation that establishes living labs like ours, on the themes of ecosystem restoration and revegetation. Possibilities for collaboration were also discussed!
The research project led by scientists from the Biodiversity, Genes and Communities (BIOGECO - INRAE and University of Bordeaux) and the Environments and Paleo-environments of the Oceans and Continents (EPOC - CNRS, Bordeaux INP and University of Bordeaux) laboratories, carried out with several partners and supported by the Bordeaux University Foundation, aims to study the response of forests to climate change in order to be able to adapt to it and help combat global warming.
Discover and support the project (in French)
