Russian Forests
Welcome to FOREST.RU !!!
If You are looking for information about Russian forests and forestry You are in the right place!
Note, this is NOT an official site of Russian Forest Service or any other governmental body and NOT an advertisement by some particular forest company. Forest is no all about timber!
This site is about Russian forests, their conservation and sustainable usage. We will try to share with You our vision on Russian forests, forestry and forest management.
We will provide You with a basic information about Russian forests and forestry. We will share with You official data available, as far as provide our comments and evaluations. We will also tell You about official concept of Russian forestry and guide You through complicated Russian forest legislation and regulations.
Forest News
Volunteers fighting forest fires in Russia - high price for civil independence (19 августа 2010)
She died in a car crash — it happened on smoke-covered, poorly paved road. All of them were deadly tired after figthing the fire for the whole day, and apparently the driver did not notice a steep turn. Olga Samovarschikova, travel-club coordinator, was among group of volunteers defending village Polbino, Moscow region, against forest fire. She and other people were fighting forest fire that officially did not exist, according to the reports and forest fire maps of Emergency Situations Ministry.
Shoigu in Attempt to Cover-Up Danger of Contamination from Burning 'Chernobyl' Forests (14 августа 2010)
On Friday afternoon head of Russian Emergency Ministry Sergey Shoigu publicly demanded to stop the rumors about radiation danger as a result of forest fires in the region of Bryansk. Immediately after this statement, Russian governmental organization "Roslesozaschita", responsible for protecting forests, removed from its web-site the information about forest fire in radioactively contaminated zones in the west of Russia - told Anti-atom.ru.
Hot Links
Forest Fires in the Russian Taiga: Natural Disaster or Poor Management?
Taiga Rescue Network Factsheet, Written by Mikhail Karpachevskiy, 2004.
Environmental aspects of forestry activity of large forest companies in Russia
21 largest industry holdings consume 23-25% of the wood supply and hold 40-42% of forest products sales
Atlas of Russia’s Intact Forest Landscapes
A History of Russian Forestry and its Leaders
Approximately 289 million hectares (26 percent of the forest zone) remain as large, intact forest landscapes in Russia. Approximately 5 percent of the intact forest landscapes are in areas with special protection at the federal level.
If You believe everything is OK with forests in Russia You are unfortunately far from the true. On this site we will also tell You about problems we regard as the most important for Russian forests.
However, we would not like just to tell how bad the situation is but look how the problems could be solved. Each time telling about a problem we will try to look for solution. Particularly, in this site
we will try to discuss sustainable forestry
issues in Russia – possible ways to improve current forestry practices.
One of our special focus is Russian old-growth forests – one of the largest shares of world's intact forests still remain in the Earth. We believe this unique
natural heritage has international importance and should be preserved against destruction.
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