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From the Model forest to the Model republic

This was the motto of the conference organized by the Silver Taiga Foundation at the end of the anniversary year: in 2012 the Foundation celebrated its tenth anniversary and the Komi Model Forest reached the age of 15. When introducing the results of the fifteen-year activities and perspectives of the Model forest to the participants Deputy Director of the […]

“Model forest”: regional experience at the European level

The second annual conference within the frameworks of the “Baltic landscapes” project took place on November 5-8th in the Polish town Mikolajki. It will be recalled that “Baltic landscapes” is an international project aimed at the development of the new approaches in the forest landscapes management. Only considering the forest landscape holistically it is possible to […]

Any sandpiper is great in his own swamp

That’s how the teacher of Geography from the rural school of the village Lugovoy of the Pechora district Elena Albertovna Romanyuk called her author’s educational program. The program, developed within the framework of the “Forest village” project, is devoted to familiarization of the high-school children with the basics of economic literacy. A seminar-presentation of this program was carried […]

Regional risk assessment for non-certified wood will be developed in Komi

The first meeting-seminar for the representatives of the parties interested in the development of the regional risk assessment for controlled wood at the republican level was held on October 25th in Syktyvkar on the initiative of the Russian national office of the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) and Silver Taiga Foundation. The term “controlled wood” was introduced in […]

Model Forest in the Komi Republic – Reloading

A delegation from Komi visited Canada from September 27th to October 2d in order to get acquainted with the activities of the Canadian Model Forest Network. The main task of the delegation consisting of the Head of the Komi Republic, Head of the Forest Committee Vasily Osipov, Minister of Industrial Development and Transport Andrey Samodelkin, […]

In search of the salmon “nests”

Another research expedition within the frameworks of the “Model river Mezen” project with participation of the Silver Taiga Foundation employees, specialists of the Federal State Institution “Komirybvod” and the Udora district Committee for Environmental Conservation, as well as the representatives of the local community “Udorachi” was carried out. The main task of the expedition was […]

FSC Friday in the Forest Institute

An international campaign “FSC Friday” aimed at drawing of the attention of society and business to the necessity of development of the environmentally and socially responsible forest use took place on September, 28th in the Forest Institute. Specialists of the Silver Taiga Foundation came to the meeting with the fifth-year students, who with a keen […]