This twenty-minute tape, narrated by professional ecologists, tells the story of the unique intact taiga forests. Analysts believe that only around 10 percent of these forests remain in Northern Europe. The film presents the amazing diverse world of the European taiga, which is almost completely unknown to the most of the population on the continent.
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Shrinking Taiga: old-growth forests of Northern Europe
Petrozavodsk Protesters Demand Karelia Government Keeps All Planned SPNAs.
On February 15, the Karelia Regional Nature Conservancy SPOK organized a demonstration in Petrozavodsk to protect Karelia’s valuable forests. Read more… »
ROO SPOK Publishes New Map of Karelia’s Specially Protected Natural Areas.
The Karelia Regional Nature Conservancy SPOK has drawn up a map of the republic’s Specially Protected Natural Areas. Read more… »
Conserving Valuable Natural Areas in Northwest Russia.
Analysis of the SPNA Network in the Arkhangelsk, Vologoda, Leningrad, and Murmansk Oblasts, the Republic of Karelia, and the city of St. Petersburg. Read more… »
Karelia Regional Nature Conservancy SPOK Publishes Public Report on 2011 Activities.
The Karelia Regional Nature Conservancy SPOK has released a summary of its 2011 activities. Read more… »
ROO SPOK Prepares New Map of Republic’s Intact Forests.
The Karelia Regional Nature Conservancy SPOK has drawn a new map of the republic’s intact forest lands. Read more… »
Karelian Government Update of Regional Land Use Plan May Lead to Nine-fold Reduction in Number of Planned Specially Protected Natural Areas.
The Karelia Regional Nature Conservancy (SPOK) was astonished by the January 30, 2012, posting on the official portal of the republic’s government agencies that “the Ministry of Natural Resources and Ecology does not plan a seven-fold reduction in the number of Specially Protected Natural Areas,” (http://gov.karelia.ru/gov/News/2012/01/0127_20.html) where it was also maintained that statements to that effect allegedly were published by some media organizations with links to ROO SPOK. Read more… »
Karelia Government Releases Updated Report on Ladoga Skerries National Park.
In December 2011, the Karelian government released the Environmental-Economic Report for the Creation of the Ladoga Skerries National Park (Map 1, Map 2, Map 3, Report, Appendix), which was updated with input from public hearings held in the Lakhdenpokh’ya, Sortavala, and Pitkyaranta regions. Read more… »
ROO SPOK Urges Inclusion of Planned Ladoga Skerries National Park and Other Protected Zones in Karelia’s Land Use Plan.
The Karelia Regional Nature Conservancy SPOK has once again appealed to the Karelian Minister of Development, Alexander Efimov, and the Minister of Natural Resources and Ecology, Sergei Shtrakhov, to include the planned Ladoga Skerries National Park and the protected zones of the other national parks in the region in the republic’s land use plan. Read more… »
Court Upholds Kostomuksha Nature Reserve’s Protected Zone.
On December 23, 2011, the Arbitrazh Court of Karelia upheld a suit brought by the republic’s Public Prosecutor and declared invalid a contract to lease timberland near the Kostomuksha State Scientific Nature Reserve that was signed in January 2011 between the republic’s Ministry of Natural Resources and Ecology and OOO Kostomuksha Development Company. Read more… »
ROO SPOK Presents Documentary Film on Scandinavian Forest Use.
On December 13, in Petrozavodsk, the Karelia Regional Nature Conservancy SPOK presented the documentary, Intensive Forest Use in Scandinavia, which was filmed by its staff during an expedition to the forests of northern Sweden and Finland. Read more… »
