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13 Role of Greenpeace of Russia and Other Public Organizations in the Conservation of Russian Forests
13 Role of Greenpeace of Russia and Other Public Organizations in the Conservation of Russian Forests
Pages 91-98
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For example, only 6 percent of the taiga zone in European Russia has natural forests. Greenpeace of Russia made a map, "Last Remaining Forestlands of the European Taiga," based on space imagery and special nature studies.
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In 1999 the payment for forest exploration rights was about 15 percent of the total costs of the Federal Service of Forestry. The present pattern of forestry leads both to the total destruction of the last remaining ancient forests and to ecological disturbance of the forest zone (water balance, swamping, soil decay, biodiversity decrease)
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The Club's major activities are: · Improvement of Russian forest legislation, forestry regulations, and technical standards · Inventory of natural old growth forests and other valuable forest areas · Monitoring of protected territories for illegal logging and poaching · Promotion of ecologically and socially responsible forestry and independent forest certification · Publication of the Forest Bulletin The current state forest management system does not ensure participation of NGOs in forest management and development of forest policy. The overwhelming majority of Forest Service employees regard NGOs as hostile entities that should not interfere in forest affairs.
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Improvement of Russian forest legislation; promotion of ecologically and socially responsible forestry; and independent forest certification. Detailed analysis of illegal felling shows the weakness of the current Forest Code, with 20 percent of timber being felled illegally.
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The inventory of ancient taiga areas all over Russia is now carried out within the project "The Forest Watch of Russia." Russian research and production institutions, the technical center Skaneks, the International Institute of Forestry, and regional organizations, such as Altai-21 Century Foundation, Friends of Siberian Forests (Krasnoyarsk) , and the Bureau of Regional Public Campaigns (Vladivostok)
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To improve professional qualifications of environmental organization members and forest officers, the Forest Club publishes the periodical Forest Bulletin as well as other materials, for example the book European Taiga on the Verge of the Millennium by A Yu Yaroshenko.
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· To provide free access for the general public and NGOs to data concerning implementation of projects for use of natural resources and for environmental protection. It is necessary to remove unreasonable obstacles for access to ecological data, including costs, particularly if they are already paid from budgetary funds.
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