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LZK Lunvozh LLC Employees Learned from Own Mistakes

Silver Taiga Foundation has held a three-day seminar-consultation for the Lunvozh LLC employees. Lunvozh is a small logging enterprise with an annual felling volume of about 200 thousand cubic meters in the Kirov district. Located in the city of Murashi, Lunvozh LLC has a lease base not only on the territory of the Kirov region, […]

“I Will Always Attend This Field School”

Summer Field School is over. The School was organized for the schoolchildren from Udora district of Komi in Krivushevo village located on Irva river – Mezen tributary – by Silver Taiga Foundation jointly with the Children’s Activity Center of Usogorsk village (Udora district of Komi) and with the participation of the Special Protected Natural Area (SPNA) Center of the Komi […]

The Komi Model Forest Routes Are Ready for the Educational Courses

As usual, the Silver Taiga Foundation ecologists have started another field season with preparation of the Komi Model Forest demonstration routes for educational courses, seminars and excursions, which have already been organized and conducted by the Foundation during summer and autumn for fifteen years and have always been popular among the forest relations participants – […]

Boreal Forest Platform

Boreal forest platform will contribute to the proper transition to the intensive forestry in Russia. Silver Taiga director Yury Pautov participated in the round-table discussion held on May 19 in Moscow by WWF Russia. The discussion was devoted to the development of the boreal forest platform with the focus on intensive forestry.

Changes in the Coordination Council

During the last meeting of Silver Taiga Coordination Council held on May 05 the composition of the Council was changed and a new Chairman was elected. Coordination Council is the supreme management body of the Silver Taiga Foundation, which carries out management of the Foundation activity and ensures the observance by the Foundation of the […]

“Forestry Intensification: Prospects and Limitations in the Komi Republic”

That was the name of the regular republican Forest dialogue, organized on April 23-24, 2015 by the Silver Taiga Foundation jointly with Mondi Syktyvkar. The Forest dialog is a platform for discussing the topical issues related to the forest management and use, where each stakeholder has an equal opportunity to participate in a debate on […]

Meeting of the Barents Region Experts in Uppsala (Sweden)

Silver Taiga director Yuri Pautov and the member of the Working Group on Environment of the Barents Euro-Arctic Region (BEAR), the Chairman of the nature protection subgroup Tatiana Tyupenko (Syktyvkar State University) took part in the meeting of BEAR experts in the town of Uppsala.

“New Tools for Barents Region Forests Conservation”

That was the name of one of the round tables, organized in the framework of the international conference “Ecological and economic cooperation in the Barents region: from problems towards search of joint solutions” held on March 12-13 in Arkhangelsk. The Silver Taiga Foundation Director Yury Pautov reported with a presentation “Development of the regional network […]