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• Source of funding
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• Project implementation area
• Project goal
• Methods of work
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Boreal forest conservation and management: Komi Model Forest, Komi Republic, Russia

1996 – 1999 – 2002 – 2005 – 2006

Swiss Agency For Development And Cooperation (SDC) of the Swiss government

World Wild Fund for Nature (WWF) in 1996 – 2002

Komi Regional Non-Profit Foundation “Silver Taiga” in 2002 –2006

Priluzsky Leskhoz, Komi Republic, Russia

800 000 hectares

Implementation of sustainable forestry in the Komi Republic and new experience dissemination in the North-West of Russia.

• problem analysis
• positive functioning example
• problem solving by all interested parties
• positive experience dissemination
• education and qualification improvement
• new forest policy
• legal support
• public acknowledgment
• voluntary forest certification

Alexander Gibezh — Deputy Minister of Industry and Energy of the Komi Republic.

Tamara Dmitriyeva — Head of the Regional Economy department at the Institute of Socio-Economic and Energy Problems of the North, coordinates the socio-economic evaluation of the forest resources in Komi Model Forest.

Tatyana Kosolapova — Deputy Head of the Chernysh rural settlement Administration, Priluzje district, Komi Republic. A coordinator of the educational program “Village Ecology”.

Albert Loginov — A representative of the local population in the Udora region, Komi Republic. A member of the National Working group on Forest Certification.

Andrey Navalikhin — Deputy Director of the Priluzje forestry unit (chief forester) involved in the project since 1998. An employee of the Silver Taiga Foundation until June of 2005. An active participant of the FSC-certification process and implementation of the project results directly on the territory of the Model Forest.

Vasily Osipov — Head of the State Forestry Service of the Komi Republic.