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During the period of August through to September, another Polish delegation visited the Komi Model Forest. It was the second visit of specialists from Poland during this time. While the first delegation was represented by the state forest service (forestry specialists from two regions: Poznan and Olsztyn), the second team (who have finished their tour […]
Students from Politovo Udora region, took part in an environmental areastudy expedition “Long Live Salmon”. Together with Dina Chuprova, the initiator of this event, just for a few summer days the students could work not only in their village, but in other places – Muchkas, Patrakovo, Latyug and Bolshaya Pyssa. The main goal of the […]
The environmental propaganda team called Green Team, which is organized by the staff of the Koslan Central Library within the Model River Mezen Project, visited seven locations in Udora region in August for two weeks. The creative team showed theatrical performance “Together for a Clean House” in villages Chernutyevo, Butkan, Ertom, Solnechnyi, Blagoevo and Usogorsk. […]
Foresters from Poland visited Komi Model Forest and praised real benefits of project. This trip brought together ten forestry experts from the two regions – Poznan and Olsztyn. The meeting was held as a part of the Baltic Landscapes Project. The main point of this project is to find innovative approaches to the management of […]
The working group of the Model River Mezen Project has initiated the development of interregional program for the restoration and conservation of Atlantic salmon population in the basin of the Mezen River. The promotion of the conservation and restoration of salmon is an important part of this project. During this project Silver Taiga organized several field trips to the […]
What is sustainable river management? How to establish such management? What hinders it? What problems do the users face? Discussion of these issues became the main topic of another meeting of the Model river Mezen project Working group, which took place on June 6. Przemyslaw Majewski, recent Director of the Silver Taiga Foundation and a […]
Russian modern forestry has some vexed problems – from the imperfections of the forest legislation and immature market relations to the depletion of forest resources and low efficiency to deal with forest fires. Obviously, it’s impossible to solve all forest issues quickly; the buildup of sustainable forestry in Russia will take years. One of the […]
Geographic information systems and data of Earth Remote Sensing are widely used for all kinds of purposes – from archaeological researches and search for mineral resources to the current monitoring of spring flood and forest fire spread. How to use these types of information for the forest use planning and how via GIS to plan […]
In February representatives of the “Model river Mezen” project Working group made another trip to the Leshukonsky district of the Arkhangelsk region. Silver Taiga Foundation ecologist Nikolay Shuktomov, local communities coordinator Valentina Semyashkina, and the deputy of the Udorsky municipal district Council Albert Loginov participated in the meetings with the residents of the rural settlements […]
Silver Taiga Foundation employees took part in the parliament proceedings on the draft law of the RF “On amateur fishing” organized by the Committee on Natural Resources, Nature Management and Ecology, State Council of the Republic of Komi. As is known, in 2010 some amendments were made in federal law №66. According to them free […]