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The GMFA, being founded by joint efforts of Russian and Canadian partners in 1994, during 11 years of its activity accumulated essential experience in the sphere of building partnership and thrust to the sustainable forest management (SFM) and conservation of biological diversity. This activity has resulted in:
a) proposals on the list of criteria and indicators of forest ecosystems’ condition and well-being
of forest-dependent groups based on the Montreal process and Santiago declaration on
conservation and sustainable use of boreal and temperate forests;
b) comprehensive inventory of all natural resources of its area;
c) development and implementation of new technologies for forest management, including those
based on GIS and related to high-tech categories, monitoring of local level indicators (LLIs)
of well-being of forest ecosystems and conservation of biodiversity;
d) building and strengthening of stable partnership and transition to consensus-based decisions;
e) conducting of comprehensive studies for adaptation of the forestry branch to the new challenges and issues arose due to permanent reconstructions of Russia transiting to the market style of the national economy;
f) creation of an integrated system of new educational curriculums and the according effective system of re-education of forest specialists towards the sustainable forest use and for adapting forest experts to new conditions of forest management and propagation of the GMFA experience among other interested public strata.
g) These days the GMFA is worldwide known and a partner of the IMFN, it keeps its own
website in the Internet and supports contacts, through E-mail, with some other model forests
of the world and with the IMFNS. We also took part in several international workshops and
hold our own. The GMFA experience is known and requested by other model forests. For
example, in 2005, the GMFA rendered its assistance in foundation of another Russian model
forest – “Kovdoderski” – in the Murmansk oblast and took part in the Global MF Forum in
Costa-Rica. In 2006, the GMFA was active in rendering assistance to the development of the
Russian national model forest network, now consisting of the GMFA, Kovdozerski MF, Pskov
MF, Komi (“Priluzie”) MF, Kostroma MF.
This Report is dedicated to the implementation of the GMFA Workplan-2006 directed to the strengthening of the partnership, cooperation, and networking with other model forests, for the first turn – with those of Russia.
Vladimir F. Pominov
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