Forests

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B. Milakovsky, A. Kabanets, D. Sychikov, A. Sychikov, E. Chuvasov

This report is intended to draw attention to problem of illegal logging under the cover of forest tending and salvage logging in the Far East of Russia. The abuse of these silvicultural practices threatens Amur tiger habitat. It describes practices used in region to undermine forest legislation and conduct industrial logging under cover of useful silvicultural practices, which threatens Amur tiger habitat. This report will be helpful to regional and federal forestry authorities, law enforcement agencies, timber exporters, NGOs, students of universities and colleges, as well as all those who care about Russian forests.

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Smirnov, D.Y. (ed.) Kabanets, A.G., Milakovsky, B.J., Lepeshkin, E.A., Sychikov, D.V, 2013

This report summarizes case studies and on-the-ground fi eld observations over 10 years of investigations. These investigations reveal a sobering reality:
the forest management system has become deeply criminalized, allowing illegal loggers to plunder valuable timber stocks with impunity.

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Edited by Josh Newell, Nikolay Shmatkov, Yury Shuvaev, 2010

This Country Guide is primarily designed to help keep illegally sourced timber out of supply chains that begin in Russia. It is targeted specifically at those who purchase timber products sheet materials, sawn timber, pulp, paper, furniture, and other wooden manufactured goods from Russia.

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2006

The authors are grateful to the following experts who contributed to this publication: A. Lankin, N. Burdin, E. Kulikova, A. Voropaev, V. Dmitriev, Yu. Darman, D. Smirnov, E. Kopylova, N. Shmatkov and, of course, to E. Voronkova and L. Melnik, the editors of Russian edition of publication.

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Anatoly Kotlobay, Andrey Ptichnikov, 2002

Problem Analysis and Proposed Solutions

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Alexei Lankin, Alexander Voropaev, 2002

Japan is the second largest importer of wood from Russia after China, accounting for 17% of the country export and worth 700 million USD  per year. Export to Japan involves timber coming from Southern Siberia and the Russian Far East (RFE). Siberian forests consist primarily of typical boreal species – spruce, pine. Far Eastern forests have a boreal character in the north of the region and temperate hardwood oak and ash-tree forests in the south of the RFE.

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Jennifer Rietbergen-McCracken with Gerald Steindlegger and Chng Soh Koon, 2007

This brochure will interest anyone seeking solutions for forest use that look at not only the economic value of forests but also the critical social and ecosystem values and services which forests provide to people and nature. Readers will be able to learn about the concept of High Conservation Value Forests (HCVFs) and how it has been applied throughout the world. They will also be able to see how the concept has been used in many different settings and by a wide range of stakeholder groups.

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Kerry Hughes, Tasha Goldberg, 2012

This summary condenses the report that investigated the development of market links for non-timber forest products (NTFPs) in the Russian Far East (RFE). Based on resource inventories and management plans completed in the RFE territories, there are indeed marketable materials available for sustainable harvest that can produce benefits for biodiversity conservation as well as the sustainable economic development of the local people including the indigenous Udege and Nanai communities.

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Brochure, 2017

BIKIN Project and KOREAN PINE CARBON STORAGE Project: Results of the Russian-German cooperation in the Russian Far East

«Mitigate impacts of climate change through the protection of large scale virgin forests in the Bikin Area (Russian Far East)» BMU-No II. C. 65. November 2008—October 2012

«Reduction of CO2 emission through the protection and sustainable management of Korean Pine broadleaved mixed forests in the Russian Far East» BMU-No. 11. III.027. RUS.K.
August 2011—June 2016

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Amur WWF

The Amur Ecoregion forests are considered to be the most productive in the temperate zone of Asia. Here, the typical northern species like elk, birch get along with southern yellow-throated marten, wild vine, tigers and leopards.
Since 1998, the Forest Program run by WWF in the Russian Far East is focused on saving the most valuable forests of the Amur Ecoregion. The forests play a signifi cant role in preserving biological diversity, they mitigate climate change, clean air, reduce geenhouse gases concentration in the atmosphere, protect against fl oods and soil erosion, safeguard rivers' sources and lakes.

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Elena Feditchkina Tracy, 2015

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Elena Feditchkina, 2015

An analytical brief, by WWF Russia Amur Branch

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Rut Domènech, Evgeny Lepeshkin, Sven Mutke, Elena F. Tracy, Miriam Piqué, 2019

The Amur-Heilong temperate mixed forests are the most biologically diverse temperate forests in Asia, and especially the mixed conifer broadleaved forest of Primorsky province harbors the greatest diversity.
Over-logging and wildfires are among the main threats these forests are facing nowadays, and climate change is introducing new disturbing factors such as diseases or drought events. Thus, new management strategies are needed for the conservation of these mixed conifer broadleaved forest.
The main objective of this paper is hence to assess the current status of the pine nuts sector of Primorsky province, and the obstacles and challenges it is currently facing, for identifying the gaps between the needs of the sector and the current conditions, and to suggest the ways to promote an improved institutional and regulatory context, and a possible portfolio of market strategies, both domestic and international.

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WWF Russia, 2017

WWF supports voluntary forest certification under the FSC (Forest Stewardship Council®) scheme both globally and in Russia, as it helps prevent forest degradation and depletion of our planet's forest resources.
FSC promotes environmentally responsible, socially beneficial and economically viable forest management in the world. For this reason, the whole system is based on the balance of three different groups of interests, i.e. environmental, economic and social, each group has its own chamber in the membership system, the chambers being absolutely equal.

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WWF Russia, 2020

Fires are one of the most significant threats to forests and their biological diversity. Every year, at least 3 million hectares of forests are completely destroyed due to fires, which is 3 times more than the area of forests used annually for logging.

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Amur WWF Russia, 2015

In May 2015, staff of the Amur Branch of WWF-Russia organized the first field check of the work of the forest satellite monitoring system in Primorsky and Khabarovsky Provinces.
The objects of monitoring were used to optimize the automatic identification of forest canopy changes, as the basis for improving the accuracy of identification of low intensity logging operations.
This publication is a short report on KEDR system.

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Rut Domènech, Elena F. Tracy, Marta Rovira and Evgeny Lepeshkin

The main objective of this paper is to assess the current status of the forest beekeeping sector of Primorsky province, the obstacles and challenges it is currently facing, to identify the gaps between the needs of the sector and the current conditions, and to suggest the ways to move it forward via improving institutional and regulatory context, and expanding the repertoire of market strategies, domestic and international.

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