University of Gonder General Forestry Department

Department of General Forestry is one of the youngest departments in the College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences which was launched during 2017/18 academic year. The department has 15 active academic staffs, 11 administrative staffs and 9 daily laborers. Currently, one undergraduate and three post graduate programs are running in the department. The department has now more than 137 regular undergraduate, 14 regular postgraduate and 10 extension postgraduate students. In addition to teaching learning activities, the department has also been involved in carrying out problem solving research, community service and technology transfer endeavors. In order to facilitate the teaching, research, community service and technology transfer activities, the department has established four research and demonstration site at Ambagiworgis, Teda,  Injibara and Shinta areas.
Mission
The mission of the General Forestry Department is to produce and transmit knowledge about the function and dynamics of forests and related renewable resources to all stakeholders/customers; to encourage continual learning about forest and related renewable resources and their role in making people’s lives better; and to produce graduates who will manage the forest and related resources on sustainable bases.
Goals
General forestry program has four broad goals:

• Understand the function and dynamics of forests and related renewable resources;
• Attain skills required to manipulate forests and related natural resource systems and to predict the consequences;
• Assess & monitor citizen and owner values regarding forests; and
• Integrate values with scientific facts