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
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… »
Nature Conservationists and Amateur Radio Operators Build Eco-friendly Path to Largest Spruce Tree in Fennoscandia.
The Karelia Regional Nature Conservancy SPOK has completed work on the construction of a tourist path to the largest spruce tree in Fennoscandia, which is located on the grounds of the Zaozersky Scenic Reserve on the outskirts of Petrozavodsk. Read more… »
Fewer Intact Forests Protected by Logging Moratorium in Karelia.
The Karelia Regional Nature Conservancy SPOK has reviewed the current state of the republic’s Specially Protected Natural Areas (SPNAs) and Intact Natural Forests (INFs) as of January 1, 2011. Read more… »
ROO SPOK’s Appeal to Karelia Government: Don’t Approve Changes to Land Use Plan.
On October 4, the Karelia Regional Nature Conservancy SPOK held a press conference in Petrozavodsk and presented their analysis of the changes to the republic’s land use plan. Read more… »
Karelia To Lose Over a Million Hectares of Valuable Natural Areas.
On October 4, the Karelia Regional Nature Conservancy SPOK held a press conference concerning the changes to the current Land Use Plan of the Republic of Karelia, which the government intended to approve in the near future. Read more… »
ROO SPOK: OOO Swedwood Karelia Must Disclose High Conservation Value Forests Found on Leased Lands.
The audit company NEPCon is re-evaluating certification of OOO Swedwood Karelia’s forest management and chain of custody system within their leased forest lands in the Kalevala and Kostomuksha Central Forest Districts, an area of more than 295,000 hectares. Read more… »
Friends of the Earth Sweden Demands Repeal of Swedwood Karelia’s Forest Certification.
The Swedwood Karelia timber company is at the center of an international scandal over clearcutting in the undisturbed taiga of northern Karelia. Read more… »
Swedwood’s Karelian Subsidiary Destroying Valuable Forests in Northern Karelia.
The Swedish nature conservation organization Protect the Forest has asked the accounting firm NEPCon to withdraw the forest management certification issued to Swedwood Karelia. Read more… »
