Forest Management Association Pirkanmaa (FMA Pirkanmaa) is a member-based forest owners association established in 2011. FMA Pirkanmaa has 33 employers and 5584 members that manage 166 000 hectares of forest. The association is active in terms of publishing its own magazine and engaging its members in advocacy, governance, advisory bodies of the democratic organization. FMA Pirkanmaa offers wide range of services to its members such as advisory and training, forest planning and data management, silvicultural management and wood trade. FMA Pirkanmaa is also considered as a protagonist in legal advice in forest estate and tenure questions and management of nature sites with high conservation value. FMA Pirkanmaa is the project’s twinning partner, i.e. peer-support to NACA and TTHCA in the project, and provides as a volunteer contribution in form of working time.