Belarus is establishing Model Forest in Neman River valley near Novogrudok

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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 University of Agricultural Sciences in Umea and funded by Baltic Sea Program. Establishment of 5 new and strengthening of two existing Model Forests is one of Baltic Landscape objectives. The Model Forests are covering not only forests but also waters and agriculture land – they are dealing with forested landscape and to stress it they have been named Baltic Landscapes.

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About the field works of ecologists

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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 summer field works of the Silver Taiga Foundation specialists.

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«Traffic light» controls pristine forests both in Komi and Argentina

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Director of the Silver Taiga Foundation Przemyslaw Majewski took part in the 13th meeting of the Montreal Process Advisory Committee, which started on the 2d of July in the UN office in Moscow and continued in Suzdal, Vladimir region.

The Montreal Process is an international intergovernmental initiative formed in 1994 for the purpose of harmonization and adoption of criteria and indicators of sustainable management for boreal and temperate forests. The Process Working Group consists of 12 countries: Argentina, Australia, Canada, Chile, China, Japan, Korea, Mexico, New Zealand, the Russian Federation, the United States, and Uruguay. These 12 countries are responsible for 83% of the world’s temperate and boreal forest (further details about the Montreal Process can be found at website www.mpci.org).

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The volunteers got informed about biodiversity

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The second meeting of the volunteers took place on the 5th of July in the office of the Silver Taiga Foundation.

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What shall be the Forest policy of Russia?

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During the two-day roundtable meeting, which took place in Bekasovo near Moscow, representatives of 17 environmental and social NGOs discussed the draft of the Forest policy of Russia – a document designed to define the policy of our state in respect of forest and forest use for the next ten years.

Together with NGOs from Altay, Kamchatka, the Krasnoyarsk territory, the Arkhangelsk region and other regions of Russia, as well as representatives of WWF Russia, International Socio-Ecological Union, Non-profit partnership “Transparent World”, FSC Russia National Office, and Russian Bird Conservation Union Komi Regional Non-Profit Foundation “Silver Taiga” also took part in the discussion.

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“The Mezen is able both to feed and to gladden, not to take care of it means to rob yourself!”

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This was the motto of the weekly ecological expedition within the framework of the “Model river Mezen” project which took place in June and was attended by the pupils of different age living in the settlement Usogorsk and village Politovo of the Udora region.

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Volunteers will take part in the implementation of the Silver Taiga Foundation projects

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On the 1st of June the first meeting of the volunteers took place in the Silver Taiga Foundation office.

The idea to invite volunteers appeared long ago. The projects of the Foundation aimed at sustainable development of our region are very large scale and for their successful implementation help of volunteers is needed.

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River resource management is hindered by the lack of cooperation

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Activities within the project “Fish resource management in cooperation with local population: Model River Mezen” are gradually spreading to the districts of the nearby Arkhangelsk region. At the end of February, representatives of the Project Working Group Albert Loginov, Udorsky municipal district Council deputy, and Silver Taiga Foundation Local Communities Project Manager Valentina Semyashkina visited Leshukonsky and Mezensky districts.

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AgroUdora Representatives about Mezen River Sustainable Management

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Silver Taiga representative and at the same time the member of the Working Group of Model River Mezen Project Valentina Semyashkina had a meeting with the local population of Udora region of Komi. The local population represented the agricultural cooperative “AgroUdora”. The head of the cooperative Alexander Morozov and the head of the local fishery inspection Alexey Lenkov also participated in the meeting.

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Model River Project is Close to the Rural Population

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Silver Taiga representatives Przemyslaw Majewski (Director) and Valentina Semyashkina (Local Communities Project Manager) had a meeting with the representatives of AgroUdora Cooperative (Udora region of Komi) – population of Glotovo village – one of the oldest Komi settlements located along Mezen River. The meeting was held under Model River Mezen Project.

The aim of the meeting was to discuss the goals and current activities of the project and to involve the local population into the project as it should be the key project participant.

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