Transcript Current situation with OGF in Karelia

Karelian Nature-Protection NGO
«SPOK»
Russia, Republic of Karelia, Petrozavodsk
e-mail: [email protected], http://spok.onego.ru
CURRENT SITUATION WITH
PROTECTION HCVF
IN REPUBLIC OF KARELIA
Alexandr Markovsky
Workshop
High Conservation Value Forests (pristine forests) of the European North of Russia
Approaches to Conservation and Sustainable Use
April 1-3, 2009, Syktyvkar
GENERAL APPROACH
To support nature values of a certain
area we should protect biodiversity on
different levels.
1. Large valuable forest areas of world and
international concernment.
2. Less valuable forest areas of regional and
local concernment.
3. Key biotopes – local patches of special
value.
1. Large valuable
forest areas of
world and
international
concernment.
Map of Intact Forest
Landscapes (undisturbed forest
territories with square more
50.000 ha) was published by
group of Russian NGO’s.
Also last large areas of native forest were reflected in works of
Karelian Research Centre (left picture) and in more detailed
map “Old-Growth Forest of High Conservation Value-2007” by
NGO’s (right picture).
2. Less valuable forest
areas of regional
and local
concernment
(smaller than 50.000
ha) .
Example of OGF conservation with
voluntary moratorium in the leasing
area of “Pyaozerskiy LPH”
So investigation of 2nd level
areas should be continued.
3. Key biotopes.
Identification and protection of key
biotopes can be done in forestry.
Forest use can be combined with
biodiversity conservation.
How we can organize it?
To exclude most
valuable
objects
from
exploitation
To adopt forestry
practice to pay
more attention to
forest
dynamic
and biodiversity
conservation
To exclude most valuable
objects from exploitation
Protected area in Karelia.
216 nature reserves - 1007,6 th. ha (5,6 %
from total area of Karelia).
133 of them have regulations which allow
any cuttings (1,9 % from total area of Karelia)
Karelian Master-Plan consist 60
planning nature reserves.
Total area (without water surface) is about 1600 th. ha
(9 % from forestry area of Karelia).
Almost all OGF are included in planned nature
reserves.
To adopt forestry practice to pay
more attention to forest dynamic
and biodiversity conservation
Example of protection Key
biotops in forestry in NorthWest Russia.
The inside instruction for enterprises define how protection
biodiversity in forestry should be managed.
The Field manual book includes 13 key habitats which
potentially consist highest level of forests biodiversity
A key biotopes are funded in identifying of
logging plots areas.
The Field manual book includes descriptions of key habitats, their
photos and recommendation of protection.
STEP 1. There are needs to go via all planning logging plot
and identify key habitats, bases on Field manual book.
(Type 1. Coniferous forests in wet depression)
Bryoria fremontii –
lichen from Russian
Red data book
STEP 2. Mark in nature certain key habitats borders
The results – protected biodiversity in forestry!
The experience of Karelian field manual book are
spread in other forest regions of NW-Russia
2007
http://spok.onego.ru/Opredelitel_mail.pdf
(SPOK)
2008
http://www.wwf.ru/data/pub/regions/biotops.pdf
(Arkhangelsk WWF)
Different reason for protection
biodiversity in forestry in NWRussia
• Federal law about nature reserves predict
biodiversity and wildness area protection;
• New Forest code says that forest law should
provide sustainable forestry and biodiversity
conservation;
• New Logging rules predict to protect
biodiversity during logging operations;
• FSC requests are corresponded with Russian
federal law and ratified international
conventions (for example Convention on
Biological Diversity).
Example of protection HCVF in
forestry in North-West Russia.
Overlapping between planned
nature reserves and HCVF
New “Master plan…” include:
250 th. ha (1,4 % from total area of Karelia) – are protected on a voluntary basis by forest companies;
660 th. ha (3.7 % from total area of Karelia) – are not protected
Almost all big forest industry enterprises of Karelia
voluntarily protect OGF in their leasing area.
They are:
•
Ledmozersky LZH
•
Karellesprom holding company
•
Segezha PPM (Investlesprom)
•
Swedwood Karelia (IKEA)
•
Ladenso (Stora Enso)
•
Pyaozersky LPH
•
Muezersky LPH (Investlesprom)
•
etc.
So in Karelia by summer 2008 forest companies
agreed to protect voluntarily all intact forest
landscapes with area more 50.000 ha
The Karelia authorities nowadays recognize
the value of OGF and the need of their
protection
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"Karelian Forest Committee
(Goskomles) considers that social,
ecological and spiritual value of oldgrowth forests is much more valuable
than price of wood and industrial
products than can be gained from
these forests." (Karelian Forest
Committee, 18.09.07)
"The unclearities with old-growth
forests effects the process of forest
certification... and the work of forest
industry enterprises. Old-growth forest
territories need to be pointed out and
determined in related documents and
in the regulations guiding forest
management... Reasoned
recommendations... for old-growth
forests protection can be taken into
account in Forest Management Plan
and in forest management regulations
as Especially Protected Forest Plots
(osobo zashitie uchastki) " (Ministry of
Industry of the Republic of Karelia),
Biodiversity conservation experience in
LadEnso (StoraEnso) leases area
(South Russian Karelia)
Biodiversity conservation experience in
Swedwood (IKEA) leases area
(North Russian Karelia)
Science investigations which deal with
protection biodiversity in forestry
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Groups of investigators which
deal with protection biodiversity
in forestry
Global forest watsh (Russia)
WWF (Russian Far East)
WWF (Arkhangelsk)
Found “Silver Tajga”
SPOK
Pskov Model Forest
Kirov’s Forest Certifications Centre
Metsaliitto (Leningrad region)
Project “Biological value forests”(Leif
Andersson&Nadja Alekseeva)
Current problems with protection
biodiversity in forestry practice of
FSC-certified company in Karelia
Large valuable
forest areas
of world and
international
concernment
Valuable forest
areas of regional
and local
concernment.
Key biotopes
SwedwoodKarelia
Identificated and
voluntary protected
Internal method
Internal method
Investlesprom
Identificated and
voluntary protected
Not identificated
Free of charge
method and field
manual book
Zapkarelles
Identificated and
voluntary protected
Not identificated
Not created
Ladenso
Identificated and
voluntary protected
Internal method
Internal method
“Maslozero case”
Agreement about protection HCVF in
“Maslozero case”, 2007
Planned logging plots
Voluntary protected HCVF and planned PA
“Selegskoe case”
Letter from company “SLZK” (“Investlesprom”) about
stop logging in HCVF in “Selegskoe case” and moved
activities in other plots
Planned protected
HCVF in leased area of
“Investlesprom”
(variant –2009, March )
Planned protected HCVF revealed with special investigation
in leased area of “Investlesprom”
202623га - 11% of leased area. Selective cutting is allowed.
Категория защитности,
особо защитные участки
Участки леса с наличием
реликтовых и эндемичных
растений
(участки
с
преобладанием Ольхи черной)
Участки
старовозрастных
малонарушенных лесов
Редкие или находящиеся под
угрозой
исчезновения
экосистемы
(Сосняк
лишайниковый
(борбеломошник)-3 шт.), Сосняк
скальный – 10шт. (скальник))
Места
массового
сбора
дикоросов
Места массового отдыха
Площадь ЛВПЦ, ВСЕГО, га
Доля площади ЛВПЦ от
общей площади арендной
базы, %
Тип
ЛВПЦ
1.3
2
3
Режим лесопользования
Га
Полный
запрет
деятельности
хозяйственной
5
Полный
запрет
деятельности
Полный
запрет
деятельности:
хозяйственной
100
хозяйственной
17+94
5-6
Разрешены выборочные рубки
60
5-6
Разрешены выборочные рубки
5
281
1,5%
Examples of non-planned
protection HCVF in leased area
of “Investlesprom”
HCVF with lime tree
HCVF with fern
HCVF with elm
Stone HCVF (partly)
Thank you for your attention!