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Forest Village Project is Going On

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An old Komi village Turja has joined the Forest Village Project. Turja is situated on the right bank of Vym River 60 km far from the center of Knyazhpogost region. Silver Taiga representatives have made an interview with the local population in Turja village.

The results of the interview will help to find appropriate ways of further development of the village. According to the local population a lack of the road to the center of the region and a lack of a constant bridge over Vym River is the main barrier of the economic and social development of the village.

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HCVF International Workshop in Syktyvkar

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On April 1-2, 2009 an international workshop concerning High Conservation Value Forests (HCVF or pristine forests) in the European North of Russia was held in Syktyvkar. The attention was focused on HCVF conservation and sustainable use.

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Approved Recommendations

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On April 16, 2009 the methodological recommendations on biodiversity conservation during loggings in Komi were approved by the State Forestry Service of the Komi.

The recommendations have been developed by Silver Taiga representatives aiming at meeting the requirements of legislation in the sphere of nature protection and biodiversity conservation.

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How to Preserve Mushrooms and Berries Sites?

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Silver Taiga Foundation has issued a booklet «Recommendations on mushrooms and berries sites allocation important for the local population» written in the Russian language by Yury Pautov and Dmitry Zasukhin under Forest Village Project.

The recommendations are meant for forestry specialists, local authorities of the Komi Republic, activists and for everyone interested in a complex multiple forest resources use and sustainable forest management implementation.

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How to Organize Public Hearings?

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Silver Taiga Foundation has issued a booklet «Recommendations on public hearings organization» written in the Russian language by Yuri Pautov, Valentina Semyashkina and Tamara Makarova under Forest Village Project. The booklet will be interesting for the institutions of self government which organize public hearings, for the community and others who are interested in local people participation in forest management and in environmental issues.

The given booklet continues and enlarges the booklet of 2004 written by Silver Taiga representatives. The recommendations presented in the booklet have been approved by environmental authorities of the Komi Republic.

The booklet reveals goals, objectives and main principals of public hearings organization and holding, rights and obligations of public hearings organizers and participants, practical suggestions for the initiators, organizers and participants of the hearings.

In the Attachment of the booklet you can find a list of regulatory acts of the Russian Federation and the Komi Republic with regard to the participation of the local population in decision making process concerning natural resource use and recommendations on public hearings protocol and conclusions drawing up.

The booklet is free of charge. For additional information you are welcome at office@komimodelforest.ru

The Growing Number of Model Forests

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On April 15-16, 2009 the Deputy Director of Silver Taiga Foundation Yury Pautov shared the experience of Komi Model forest development in Nizhniy Novgorod region of Russia.

The meeting was initiated by the Forestry Service of Nizhniy Novgorod region and Finnish consulting company «INDUFOR» which are going to create a Model forest under Russian-Finnish program of cooperation with regard to sustainable forest use in the North-West of Russia. The program is being implemented already in Vologda, Archangelsk and Murmansk regions and the Republics of Komi and Karelia.

The meeting was devoted mainly to informing of the interested parties about the project perspectives and to the definition of the project priorities and main activities. At first it was planned to involve several parts of the forestry unit of Nizhniy Novgorod region with the total area of 40 000 ha. During the meeting it was proposed to enlarge the territory of the future Model forest including the biospheric reserve «Nizhegorodskoe Zavolzhje».

The name, structure, the forms of management and financing of a new Model forest are not defined yet. Moreover most of the participants of the meeting showed an interest in the project and are ready to cooperate in its development.

According to Komi Model forest experience the mutual interest and cooperation of the interested parties is the passport to the project success. Let’s hope for a new successful Model forest in the North-West of Russia.

Pristine Forests of Komi and Archangelsk regions: in Search of a Common Solution

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An ecological evaluation of a large pristine forest area (LPFA) located on the border of Archangelsk and Komi regions was made on April 9-10, 2009 on the basis of WWF-Russia in Archangelsk.

The meeting was initiated by Silver Taiga Foundation under High Conservation Value Forests Project. The goal of the project is to find and strengthen the compromise solutions with regard to conservation and sustainable use of pristine forests in Komi and to disseminate the experience to Archangelsk region.

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Some More Forest Villages Have Joined the Project

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Before 2009 there were 7 pilot settlements in Forest Village Project. Not long ago two more villages have joined the project. They are Priuralsk village situated in the foothills of subpolar Ural (Pechora region) and an old Komi village Turja on the west of the Komi Republic (Knyazhpogost region).

An interview with local people should be done in case the village joins the project. Interview’s data will help to identify the real socio-economic situation of the village. In the end of March 2009 Silver Taiga representatives went to Priuralsk village to make an interview.

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The Forest Dialogue: «Today» and «Tomorrow» of Komi Forest Villages

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The Republican Forest Dialogue was held in Syktyvkar on March 12-13, 2009. Foreststakeholders and other interested parties took part in this event.

This Dialogue was organized by Silver Taiga Foundation under Forest Village Project and it was the continuation of the international Forest Dialogue held in October 2008.

The following issues were discussed during the Republican Forest Dialogue:

  • Acquaintance with the international initiative «The Forest Dialogue» and the results of the international Forest Dialogue mentioned above.
  • Presentation of Forest Village Project.
  • Analysis of the problems and perspectives of the local self-government development in Komi.
  • Analysis of socio-economic situation in Komi forest villages.
  • Analysis of the forest villages development potential on the basis of forest resources use.

Are there natural resources for development of the main branches of industry in Komi forest settlements? What are possible schemes of economically effective resources use? What are the barriers in the development of agricultural and forest industries? What are the ways out ofthese barriers? Is there any possibility to develop tourism and processing of non-timber forest products in Komi forest villages? The participants tried to answer these and some other questions during the Dialogue.

It has been decided to continue discussions of the urgent forest villages’ development issues.

14 June 2017 – The Silver Taiga Foundation for Sustainable Development was entered to the register of “non-profit organizations exercising functions of a foreign agent” by the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation


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