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Global Forest Watch Russia invites You to review the first ever map of
intact forest landscapes in Russia
http://www.forest.ru/eng/publications/intact/
Global Forest Watch (GFW) Russia is about to complete a two-year project on
mapping of intact forest landscapes in Russia. The project is part of a
global project to map the ecological condition of the world's forests.
Similar mapping projects are currently carried out in Canada, USA, Chile,
and is about to begin in Brazil and other countries.
The Russian part of this project is of particular interest for several
reasons:
Russia is the biggest forest country in the world.
Russia has a lot of undisturbed forest left, although less than it is often
thought.
Russia is the first country to complete a map of this kind, and so the
methods and lessons learned in Russia will be applied in other countries.
The purpose of the map is to give an accurate, science-based picture of the
extent to which the landscape of forest zone of Russia has been affected by
modern human land-use, and to locate these areas on the map. The result will
later be used together with results from other countries to form a global
picture.
The result is now ready for review and we invite your opinion before it goes
to print. The review has the following goals:
- To improve the map. Concrete, well-supported suggestions will influence
the final revision of the map.
- To improve the description of the map. We welcome your comments and
suggestions on the logic and clarity of the method description and
the presentation in general.
- To improve the work in other countries. General comments and suggestions
on method and results will benefit the work of GFW in other countries.
- To improve future work in Russia. We welcome your suggestions for how to
improve and expand this work.
Please submit your critique and suggestions as indicated below. All timely
replies will be seriously considered. Critical remarks that could not be
addressed in the final review will be summarized and made public, if their
author so wishes.
When to respond: We need your response no later than 15th February, 2002.
To whom respond:
You could send your comments by e-mail to the following address:
forest@ecoline.ru. Please, specify your message in subject line as
following: "Intact Forests Review".
You could also fax your review to the fax number:
+7 095 124-71-78
The mail connection is low in Russia. Just in case our post address:
117312 Moscow Russia
Vavilova str, 41, app.1
For Dmitry Aksenov, Mikhail Karpachevskiy
Intact Forests Review
Please, click below to
http://www.forest.ru/eng/publications/intact/
View maps;
Read Explanatory Notes (in the pdf-format);
Look for particular town name in Name Index (in the pdf-format);
Learn how to download maps through FTP
Thank You for your cooperation!
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