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Practice – from the first days of studies

More than 250 first-year students of the Syktyvkar Forest Institute got familiar with the history of the forest use, natural forest dynamics and biological diversity of taiga on the Komi Model Forest routes with the support of the Silver Taiga Foundation specialists Yury Pautov, Nikolay Shuktomov, and Elena Popova. This was the administration of the […]

Down the river Mezen: illegal salmon fishing is carried out everywhere

An expedition to the lower reaches of the Mezen conducted at the end of July – beginning of August within the frameworks of the “Model river Mezen” project showed that the banning policy prevailing in the Russian legislation in the field of the fish protection and fishing does not work in reality. An expedition team […]

New knowledge for the volunteers

The next meeting of the volunteers was held in the evening on the 2nd of August. This time the topic of the meeting was voluntary forest certification. From the report presented by the Silver Taiga Foundation specialist Elena Popova the participants learned a lot of new useful information about voluntary forest certification, its development in […]

Belarus is establishing Model Forest in Neman River valley near Novogrudok

Przemyslaw Majewski has been visiting area of future Model Forest near Novogrudok in 14-19 July 2012. Main purpose of the trip was to support Belarusian colleagues with experience in establishing Model Forest especially in local partnership building and implementation of the project. The trip took place within Baltic Landscape Project, which is led by Swedish […]

About the field works of ecologists

Silver Taiga Foundation ecologists finalized another week of field works on the territory of the Noshul local forestry unit (Priluzje district). This time they were conducted at the headwaters of the river Kolyu – tributary of the Sedka. Deputy Director of the Foundation Yury Pautov tells about these activities – one of a number of […]

«Traffic light» controls pristine forests both in Komi and Argentina

Director of the Silver Taiga Foundation Przemyslaw Majewski took part in the 13th meeting of the Montreal Process Advisory Committee, which started on the 2d of July in the UN office in Moscow and continued in Suzdal, Vladimir region. The Montreal Process is an international intergovernmental initiative formed in 1994 for the purpose of harmonization […]