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The members of the Foundation held meetings jointly with the Udora representative branch of the Komi Voytyr Interregional Public Movement and the Udora district department of state supervision, surveillance and protection of aquatic bioresources in the villages of Vazhgort, Chuprovo and Puchkoma located by the Vashka river. Meeting local residents of the Mezen river […]
A field trip to Ust-Kulom district under the Assessing Long-Term Logging Impact on Water Resources project took place from 18 to 26 July. The trip aimed at studying the condition of minor rivers pressed by long-term wood cutting at catchment basins. The environmental experts from the Silver Taiga foundation focused on the basins of the […]
The final advanced FSC certification course – the last of the series of FSC consultant trainings arranged under the joint project of the World Wildlife Fund (WWF Russia) and the FSC Russian National Office (FSC Russia) – was held in Arkhangelsk region in June-July. The classes covered the topics of biodiversity preservation, forestry management in […]
The Summer Ichthyological School was arranged from June 18 to 26 in the village of Bolshaya Pyssa, Udora district, under the Model River Mezen project jointly with the Usogorsk Children’s Activity Center with the involvement of the Republic Center of Specially Protected Natural Areas. The School welcomed kids from various residential areas, such as Usogorsk, […]
An international expedition to the central part of the Verkhne-Vashka Intact Forest Massif – some of the remaining vast intact landscape still preserved in the middle subzone of the European taiga, was arranged by the Silver Taiga Foundation from 6 to 17 June 2016. The expedition aimed at scientific justification of organizing a Specially Protected […]
Silver Taiga Director Yury Pautov took part in the 4th Nordic Ruralities Conferenceheld on May 22-24 in the University of Akureyri town, Iceland. The Nordic Ruralities Conference is an interdisciplinary forum for rural research with a particular emphasis on the Nordic countries.
Silver Taiga representatives arranged a three-day FSC certification training course for the employees of SevLesPil. The workshop participants extended their knowledge with regard to FSC requirements. In particular, one of the classes conducted by the environmental expert Nikolay Shilov was focused on recommendations for the Red Book species habitat preservation.
With regard to the trip to Poland the Foundation’s experts were focused on two key objectives – to learn about the methods of aquatic ecosystem assessment used in the country and to study the experience of fishery resource management. Both tasks are relevant for efficient implementation of Silver Taiga’s projects aimed at building sustainable management […]
Model River Mezen Working Group is appealing to the public to report any cases of new unrepresentative fish species found in the catchment. Rational management of any resource implies continuous collection of data on its condition, or monitoring. Unfortunately, monitoring of the fish population in the Mezen river is far from being sufficient due to […]
Last April Silver Taiga GIS-specialist Alexander Borovlyov presented the intermediate results of the Assessing Long-Term Logging Impact on Water Resources project at two scientific conferences – in Saint Petersburg and in Kirov. A lot of interest was taken by the participants of the Forests of Russia: Politics, Industry, Science, And Education conference held in St. […]