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Stocking of the Irva Lakes with Fish Started

Last week the first practice of the stocking the “AgroUdora” cooperative fishing grounds with fish was held. The cooperative leases five fishing grounds on the Irva, the tributary of the Mezen. The members of the Glotovo branch of the “ArgoUdora” – the residents of the village with the same name and the relating villages – […]

Model Forest Needs an Experimental Status

The All-Russian “Tree planting day” campaign in the Komi Republic has been attended by the Minister for Natural Resources of Russia Sergey Donskoy and the Head of Rosleskhoz Vladimir Lebedev. In the course of their visit they got the materials on the results of the “Komi Model Forest” project implementation in Komi – an electronic […]

Volunteers to Be Engaged in Real Work

Another meeting with potential Foundation volunteers – students of the faculty of chemistry and biology of the Syktyvkar University – took place in the Silver Taiga Foundation office. The Silver Taiga Director Yury Pautov told the future ecologists and biologists about the Foundation projects. The ecologist Nikolay Shuktomov informed them about the activities within the […]

Common Problems Have to Be Solved by Common Efforts

The first joint conference of the stakeholders representing different districts and regions, and different departments was held on March 14 within the frameworks of the “Model river Mezen” project. It was organized in the village Leshukonskoye – the center of the district with the same name adjacent to the Udorsky district and located in the […]

Pupils Learn About the Tsar Fish of the Mezen River

Announcement of the results of the district contest among the methodological developments of lesson or out-of-school activities on the topic “Tsar fish – Mezen salmon” has been held in the secondary school of the Glotovo village. The contest has been conducted by the Silver Taiga Foundation jointly with the Department of Education of the municipal […]

Non-Governmental Organizations Came Forward with a Unified Position on Low-Disturbed Forests

Six Russian environmental organizations – WWF Russia, Greenpeace Russia, Non-Profit Partnership “Transparent World”, Komi Regional Non-Profit Foundation “Silver Taiga”, Interregional Public Organization “Northern Environmental Coalition” (SPOK), and Kola Biodiversity Conservation Center – have developed and signed the document containing their unified position on low-disturbed forests. It is referred to the large forest massifs (above 500 […]

Development of the Regional Risks Assessment Regarding FSC-controlled Wood

The third meeting of the Working Group under the project «Development of the regional risks assessment regarding FSC-controlled wood» was held on January, 29th in Silver Taiga office. This project is being realized by Silver Taiga Foundation together with the Russian National FSC office. The main goal of the project is to develop a regional […]

For Contribution to Sustainable Forest Management

The ecologist of Komi Regional Non-Profit Foundation “Silver Taiga” Elena Popova has been awarded by the Certificate of Honour of Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment of the Komi Republic. The head of the international and interregional programs department of the Ministry Tatjana Tyupenko handed the Certificate to Elena during the meeting of the Foundation’s […]