 Silva Mediterranea 
Conceived in 1911, created in 1922 in Marseille, and then institutionalized within the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO) in 1948, Silva Mediterranea is an international cooperation organization of foresters and botanists. From the beginning of the twentieth century to present day, Silva Mediterranea has defended the specific existence of a Mediterranean forest and region and their recognition on the national and international level, taking into account their singularity when implementing forest management policies. Up until the 70s, these postulates had not been easily accepted: which infrastructure to put in place has been the object of debate between ecological balances and socio-economic constraints, universal models and regional specificities, and productivist silviculture and forest restoration.