Progressing sustainable forestry in Russia
WEBINAR “SALVAGE LOGGING AND IFL CONSERVATION AFTER 2022: RISKS FOR FSC AND THEIR MITIGATION”, DECEMBER, 10, 2020
Salvage logging accounts for about 1/7 of the total recorded volume of wood harvested annually in Russia. According to the official statistics , for the period from 2009 to 2018 (inclusive), selective and clear-cut salvage logging amounted to an average ...
Study tour "Sustainable Forestry in China and Russia: Finding a Balance Between Intensification and Conservation of Valuable Forests", 19-25 August, 2019
In its anniversary year, the Boreal Forest Platform in cooperation with its "big sister", New Generation Plantations Platform organized a cross-border Russian-Chinese field study tour and exchanged experience in sustainable intensive forestry in commercial...
Field Workshop «Continuous Cover Forestry in Finland and Russia», 21-24 June, 2019, Finland
Russian forest companies got acquainted with new information technologies in forestry and the best practices of sustainable forest management in secondary forests, allowing to preserve forest cover in this zone and to conduct logging without the development...
Field Workshop “New approaches to sustainable intensive forest management and their practical implementation”, June 24-28, 2018, Russia
The participants of the Boreal Forest Platform discussed the best practices of sustainable forest management in secondary forests that allow logging, while preserving biodiversity and ecosystem services, and refusing from the development of the last intact...
Field Workshop “Sustainable Forestry - a Dialogue Between Canada and Other Countries”, October 2-5, 2017, Canada
Russia and Canada have launched a forest dialogue On 2-5 October 2017, on the eve of the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC ® ) General Assembly the field tour entitled “Sustainable Forestry – a Dialogue between Canada and other Countries,” took place i...
International Workshop “Boreal Forests in a Changing Climate”, June 23, 2017, Edinburgh
A session of The Boreal Forest Platform ‘Boreal Forests in a changing climate’ has been held on June 23 as a part of New Generation Plantations Annual Encounter. Forest experts from all over the world, representatives of environmental NGOs, state bodie...
Workshop «Efficient and sustainable forestry: Finland – Russia», June 13-14, 2017
Finnish timber companies go on sharing their experience and the best practice on implementing efficient and sustainable forestry with Russia. On June 13-14th, with support of Forest Program of WWF-Russia, has been held the fourth field workshop of...
FSC ROUNDTABLE AND FIELD WORKSHOP IN ARKHANGELSK OBLAST, OCTOBER 11-12, 2016
In Arkhangelsk, with the support of the Boreal Forest Platform, a round table dedicated to "New requirements of the FSC certification in relation to intact forest landscapes and their implementation" and a field workshop were held. In Russia, the...
THE DISCUSSION WITHIN THE FRAMEWORK OF BOREAL FOREST PLATFORM GAINS MOMENTUM
Open platform to share experience in intensive sustainable forestry has expanded its scope and geography of participants The field practical workshop "Intensive sustainable forestry: forest management in protective forests" brought together 28 representatives...
Interviews with participants of the international seminar in the Republic of Komi
Best practices of forest management in the world and in Russia: different points of view of experts, scientists and environmentalists share a common idea of the need to think about the future and work for the future right now... That's what the participants...
THE FIRST BOREAL FOREST PLATFORM WORKSHOP HAS TAKEN PLACE
The participants of the first field international workshop visited the sites of some major producers, the Ilim Group in Arkhangelsk Oblast and Mondi in the Republic of Komi. The field workshop "Intensive and sustainable forestry" marked the start of...
