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Forest Soils of the Middle Taiga: Consequences of the Human Intervention

7 soil scientists from different regions of Russia, participants of the 6th All-Russian Scientific Conference “Fundamental and applied aspects of forest soil science” that was held in Syktyvkar from September 14-19, visited demonstration objects of the Komi Model Forest during a scientific tour devoted to the current changes of the middle taiga forest soils. The […]

I Want to Come to Work in Russia

Tatyana Dyukova, a student of the University of Eastern Finland and a future Master of Forestry Sciences, has undertaken a two months internship in the Komi Republic. The program of the internship was arranged in such a way that within eight weeks Tatyana had a chance to learn about the work of quite different participants […]

People in the Remote Villages Do Not Believe They Can Change Anything

Last week the Silver Taiga Foundation employees Nikolay Shilov and Nikolay Shuktomov met with the residents of Vazhgort and Chuprovo – the villages located on the Vashka river. Up to now the main efforts within the frameworks of the Model River project were focused on the river Mezen itself. However, Vashka is its biggest tributary, […]

Field Works on the Mezen River Tributaries

Following the investigations of the loggings’ impact on the river ecosystems, the Silver Taiga ecologists have conducted field works at the headwaters of the Mezen river – on its tributaries Kuzhim and Nizhnaya Puzla. Several dozens of samples of benthos and plankton taken from different areas of these water streams are forwarded for analyses to […]

National Risk Assessment for FSC Controlled Wood of the Komi Republic Approved

On July 20, 2015 the Department of Policy and Standards of the International FSC Center approved the national risk assessment for FSC controlled wood of the Komi Republic. As reported in the press release of the Russian National FSC Office, “the National Risk Assessment (NRA) prepared for the entire territory of the Russian Federation in […]

Silver Taiga Ecologists Study the Impact of Loggings on the Rivers

The Foundation ecologists Alexander Borovlyov and Nikolay Shilov together with the driver Sergey Davydov have come back from the field trip to the headwaters of the Vychegda River, where they collected samples of benthos and plankton on the Cher Vychegodskaya and the Lopju tributaries within the framework of the project on the assessment of loggings’ […]

Cleaning Out the River

Two children’s ecological expeditions entitled “Let’s protect the Mezen from rubbish!” were organized by the Silver Taiga Foundation jointly with the Children’s Activity Center of Usogorsk in the framework of the Model River Mezen project in June-July.

Visit to Pechora-Ilych Reserve

The Silver Taiga Foundation employees have come back from a week-long business trip to the Pechora-Ilych Nature Reserve. The objective of the trip was to prepare the routes for the new educational season, but not only that. It was also important to introduce the young foundation employees to the peculiarities of the natural processes taking […]

Impact of Loggings on Water Resources is Under Study

Expedition consisting of Silver Taiga ecologist Alexander Borovlev and representatives of Institute of Biology of Komi Scientific Center of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences Alexei Dymov, Viktor Startsev and Alexander Sharikov has returned from a short trip to Sedka River. The aim of the expedition was to evaluate the erosion processes […]