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The Silver Taiga Foundation’s office hosted a workshop on the results of the field testing of the software solution (WebGIS program system) developed by a group of international experts upon the request from FSC International and targeted on FSC certification quality improvement. These were the actual developers – Charles Eyre, Jim Williams, Peter Wells, Francesco […]
Main five-year project results and possible solutions to the challenges preventing further progress to the sustainable management of the Mezen river resources were discussed at a regular meeting of the Model River Mezen Working Group. Nikolay Shilov, the project coordinator, made a presentation on the current status and project issues, and focused mainly on the […]
Role of oxygen in the aquatic organisms’ life and practical acquaintance with a fish kill phenomena were the subject of a visit to the lake close to Maksakovka village (not far from Syktyvkar). Silver Taiga ecologist, coordinator of Model River Mezen project Nikolay Shilov, pupils and teachers of the Republican Center of Environmental Education participated […]
The member of the Model River Mezen project Working Group, the Director of the Udora Centralized Library System Alina Vaneeva and her Deputy Ludmila Obrezkova have had a meeting with their colleagues from Leshukonje village (Arkhangelsk region) in order to present the experience of the awareness-building efforts in cooperation with Silver Taiga Foundation.
Representatives of the Model River Mezen project Working Group met residents of local villages during their recent trip to Leshukonsky district, Arkhangelsk region, after the round table held in the district center.
At the beginning of March Silver Taiga representatives took part in the opening session of the Forest School spring term. The School opens during spring break, this time for the third year in a row, in the village of Verkhny Bereznik, Ustyan district, Arkhangelsk region. All this has served an excellent basis for positive experience […]
Interregional round table “Mezen Fishery Resource Management: Population Involvement” was held in the village of Leshukonskoye, Arkhangelsk region, on 26 February. The round table facilitated by the Silver Taiga Foundation under its Fish Resource Management in Cooperation with Local Population: Model River Mezen project and Leshukonsky municipality administration gathered around thirty people – representatives of […]
During the skype meeting of Silver Taiga Coordination Council, which was held on February 26, the Coordination Council members considered and approved Silver Taiga annual working plans and the reports, discussed other current issues with regard to the projects realization.
The significance of cooperation with the local population and respect towards its interests in managing certified areas was discussed by the participants of the advance course in FSC Certification Social Issues. The two-week training course took place in the Finno-Ugric Ethnic Park in the village of Yb in the last decade of January. The participants could […]
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