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Acknowledgments

Many thanks to Karin Lindahl (Taiga Consulting AB) for providing invaluable guidance in the development of this report and taking great care in giving feedback on several drafts.

The authors are grateful to Elisa Peter and Ola Larsson (Taiga Rescue Network International Coordination Center) for their enormous energy in supporting our work. We would never have been able to complete this report without their friendly pushing and useful advises and corrections.

This report had many contributors who deserve credit for their efforts:

In Russia: Konstantin Kobyakov, Viktor Petrov, and Irina Zaytseva (Kola Wild Nature Conservation Center) and Andrei Purekhovsky (Biodiversity Conservation Center), as far as many people from different organizations who spent the large amounts of their time in field surveys.

In Norway: Rein Midteng (Norwegian Society for Nature Conservation) and Gjermund Andersen (Norwegian Society for Nature Conservation), and

In Finland: Annina Käppi, Max Liimatainen, and Olli Turunen (all Finnish Nature League).

Guidance and assistance from Per Angelstam (Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences), Lars Östlund (Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences-Umeå), Rolf Löfgren (Swedish EPA), Per Larsson (WWF-Sweden), Björn Cederberg, and others at the Artdatabank and Center for Biological Diversity (Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences-Uppsala) were greatly appreciated. We would also like to thank others who provided key data for the report and the many volunteers that have contributed to the project over the years.

It should be emphasized that this work would not have been possible without the major effort carried out by dedicated people and NGOs. Taiga Rescue Network carried out the international coordination of the national mapping efforts, aiming at a harmonization of the mapping criteria and methodology. The four country maps were compiled and digitized at the Biodiversity Conservation Center and Socio-Ecological Union in Moscow in December 1999. Remote sensing materials for the Russian maps were provided by ScanEx Research and Development Center, SPOT Image Inc. and Data+ Company.

The Taiga Rescue Network would like to thank the following organizations for their financial support to the old-growth forest mapping project:

• Swedish Society for Nature Conservation
• World Wide Fund for Nature, Sweden
• Norwegian Society for Nature Conservation
• World Wide Fund for Nature, Finland
• Finnish Society for Nature Conservation
• Biodiversity Conservation Center, Russia
• Socio-Ecological Union, Russia
• Greenpeace Russia
• Natur och Miljö
• WWF Finland
• Greenpeace Nordic
• Birdlife Finland

Funding for the work of Greenpeace Russia on the old-growth forest mapping project was provided by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.

The publication of the report and the maps was funded by the European Union, DG Environment and the Stichting School van Z.M. Koning Willem II en H.M. Koningin Emma der Nederlanden.

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