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 […]
/wp-content/img/full_logo_eng.png00silver/wp-content/img/full_logo_eng.pngsilver2012-10-09 19:15:072017-08-15 19:16:06FSC Friday in the Forest Institute
A meeting of the Udora district community with the chairman of the Committee of the State Council of the Komi Republic on nature management and ecology A.P. Makarenko was held in Koslan. During this meeting a discussion on the topic raised in one of the editions of the thematic supplement “Model river Mezen” by […]
/wp-content/img/full_logo_eng.png00silver/wp-content/img/full_logo_eng.pngsilver2012-10-08 19:19:042017-08-15 19:20:13Local population hope to get support from the State Council of the Komi Republic
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 […]
/wp-content/img/full_logo_eng.png00silver/wp-content/img/full_logo_eng.pngsilver2012-10-06 19:26:202017-08-15 19:29:29Practice – from the first days of studies
In August, on the initiative of the Silver Taiga Foundation a study tour to Latvia was organized for the employees of the Forest Service of the Komi Republic. The target of the trip was to study the experience of this country in the intensive forest management. It was a sort of “return visit” of the […]
/wp-content/img/full_logo_eng.png00silver/wp-content/img/full_logo_eng.pngsilver2012-09-21 18:44:272017-08-15 18:44:45Intensive forest management in Latvia: effect is obvious
Another field trip within the framework of the project aimed at creation of the cartographic basis for the forestry landscape planning took place at the end of August in the Ust-Nemskoye forestry unit (Ust-Kulom district): Silver Taiga Foundation ecologists have carried out the works in the basin of the river Yn, tributary of the river […]
/wp-content/img/full_logo_eng.png00silver/wp-content/img/full_logo_eng.pngsilver2012-09-14 18:50:062017-08-15 18:51:48«We can see everything from above…» - field works in the basin of the river Yn
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 […]
/wp-content/img/full_logo_eng.png00silver/wp-content/img/full_logo_eng.pngsilver2012-09-03 18:55:582017-08-15 19:00:13Down the river Mezen: illegal salmon fishing is carried out everywhere
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 […]
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 […]
/wp-content/img/full_logo_eng.png00silver/wp-content/img/full_logo_eng.pngsilver2012-08-06 18:06:152017-08-15 18:27:29Belarus is establishing Model Forest in Neman River valley near Novogrudok
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 […]
/wp-content/img/full_logo_eng.png00silver/wp-content/img/full_logo_eng.pngsilver2012-07-17 17:35:322017-08-15 17:37:43About the field works of ecologists
FSC Friday in the Forest Institute
| News by silverAn 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 […]
Local population hope to get support from the State Council of the Komi Republic
| News by silverA meeting of the Udora district community with the chairman of the Committee of the State Council of the Komi Republic on nature management and ecology A.P. Makarenko was held in Koslan. During this meeting a discussion on the topic raised in one of the editions of the thematic supplement “Model river Mezen” by […]
Practice – from the first days of studies
| «Komi Model Forest» project by silverMore 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 […]
Intensive forest management in Latvia: effect is obvious
| «High Conservation Value Forests» project by silverIn August, on the initiative of the Silver Taiga Foundation a study tour to Latvia was organized for the employees of the Forest Service of the Komi Republic. The target of the trip was to study the experience of this country in the intensive forest management. It was a sort of “return visit” of the […]
«We can see everything from above…» – field works in the basin of the river Yn
| «High Conservation Value Forests» project by silverAnother field trip within the framework of the project aimed at creation of the cartographic basis for the forestry landscape planning took place at the end of August in the Ust-Nemskoye forestry unit (Ust-Kulom district): Silver Taiga Foundation ecologists have carried out the works in the basin of the river Yn, tributary of the river […]
Down the river Mezen: illegal salmon fishing is carried out everywhere
| News by silverAn 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
| News by silverThe 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
| «High Conservation Value Forests» project by silverPrzemyslaw 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
| News by silverSilver 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 […]