Initiative Is Important and It Needs To Be Noticed

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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 the Leshukonsky district and stakeholders from Udora and Mezen districts.

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The Coordination Council: Silver Taiga Achievements Should Be Wildly Spread

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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.

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Trying On FSC Consultant Role

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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 also observe consultants at real work.

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New Information

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New issues of the supplement “Model River Mezen” to the newspaper «Vyl Tujod» (Udora district of Komi) are available on our website.

New Information

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An analytical note on the results of the sociological survey conducted among the residents of the districts near the Mezen is available on our website.

 

AgroUdora Starts to Look Ahead

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The Silver Taiga Foundation ecologists Nikolay Shilov and Nikolay Shuktomov have taken part in the traditional annual reporting meeting of the AgroUdora cooperative in Koslan.

This time the Chairman’s report (in the current year this position has been held by Leonid Vitalyevich Pavlov) turned out to be more positive than in previous years. For the first time since its creation, AgroUdora covered the quota by almost 100 percent. The sails were better organized as well: 536 kg of fish was sold to the population through the point of sale in Koslan, with which the agreement had been concluded. The rest of the fish was sold by the AgroUdora members themselves.

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Fish Resources Management Issues Have Been Discussed in Udora District of Komi

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The participants of the conference held in Koslan within the framework of the Model River Mezen project got familiar with the project implementation progress and intermediate results, discussed the pressing challenges of the Mezen fish resources management, and above all, the potential participation of the local residents in this management.

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The Second Training Workshop for FSC Consultants Took Place in Komi

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From 12-17 October, another training of the in-depth course on the environmental certification aspects was conducted in Komi – already for the second group of FSC consultants. Same as the first training held in September, it was organized by Silver Taiga within the framework of the joint project of of the World Wildlife Fund (WWF Russia) and Russian National Office of the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC Russia).

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Field Workshop in Komi – Practical Work of the Boreal Forest Platform Starts

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The Silver Taiga Foundation together with WWF Russia and Mondi Syktyvkar acted as a co-organizer of the field workshop “Intensive and sustainable forestry”, which was recently held in the Komi Republic and gave a start to the practical work of the Boreal forest platform – an expert platform for transition to the intensive and sustainable forestry, including the development of the required legal background.

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Silver Taiga and Partners Inspect Salmon Spawning Grounds in the Udora District

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The first week of October has witnessed a traditional annual expedition devoted to the Mezen salmon spawning grounds monitoring. This is already the fourth consecutive year that an autumn redds accounting – accounting of the spawned-out Atlantic salmon – using uniform methods has been conducted.

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