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No country in the world is able to organize effective use and protection of their forests without detailed information about the state of forest landscapes. The previous map ("Forest landscapes of the USSR") issued in 1990, was based on quite old materials and represented the situation of 25-30 years old. A new map "Forest Landscapes [...]
This competition is a part of program for reduction of illegal hunting and other nature protection violations. Competition will last until January 20, 2005. Any school student from Amur region may participate. He or she must write a letter to a person practicing illegal hunting or fishing, illegal logging etc. The letter should explain what [...]
OJSC Kay became 12 Russian forestry company certified according to FSC certification demands. OJSC Kay is located in Chus settlement of Verkhnekamsky county of Kirov region and has 124 ha of forest in long-term rent at Kaysky leskhoz territory. Smartwood did certification. Certification was supported by IKEA. This company has business in Russia and is [...]
The high-position forestry bureaucrat follows with statement that necessary amount of fuel and food was supplied timely, as well as repair of equipment and fire prevention activities were done. "It seems that it was a long time ago since chief forest managers, seated in Moscow, were in forest, otherwise they would not have been so [...]
Motorola and Sony Ericsson, the world’s No. 3 and 6 mobile phone makers, said they needed further scientific evidence that radio waves harm body cells and damage DNA. The results of the European Union-funded study, which was made available on a Web site this week by the coordinating German institute Verum, first needed to be [...]
About two-thirds of the exploration activity off Norway will be in the North Sea, and the rest in the Norwegian Sea further north and the Barents Sea in the Arctic, the directorate said. From 25 to 30 new exploration wells are likely to be drilled from floating platforms and between five and 10 from fixed [...]
"This decision increases our freedom," Illarionov said at a press conference Tuesday that was devoted to the economic and political performance of the country in the outgoing year. At the same time, he noted that the Russians owed this decision to their Ukrainian peers who showed consistent approach to defending their position. The presidential adviser [...]
We base our work on the following values that colour all the work of SCI: Volunteering – in the sense of acting out of self-initiative, without seeking material reward and for the benefit of civil society, as a method and a statement for social change, whilst never competing with paid labour nor seeking to contribute [...]
Russia handed official ratification papers to UN Secretary General Kofi Annan in Nairobi on Thursday. Russia’s accession gives Kyoto support from countries that emit at least 55% of the world’s greenhouse gases. The protocol commits 55 industrialised nations to making significant cuts in the emission of gases such as carbon dioxide by the year 2012. [...]
