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The ISFT aims to open up suitable forest areas worldwide for use as healing forests. At the same time, it is committed to evidence-based research into the medical effectiveness of the natural health resource forest and the creation of a curriculum for medically valid therapeutic forest therapy.

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The Society was founded on 7 November 2018 in Krems, Lower Austria and is committed to establishing an international fund for the conservation and enhancement of the importance of forest ecosystem services.

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The ISFT created a consensus on quality standards for healing forests and thus laid the foundations for a structured certification and training system for the international establishment of healing forests and therapeutic forest therapy - taking into account regional and cultural peculiarities and traditions.