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Order No. 181 validating the Regulation on particulars of management, protection, conservation of forests and reforestation in protected areas.

Country/Territory
Russian Federation
Document type
Regulation
Date
2007
Source
FAO, FAOLEX
Subject
Forestry
Keyword
Protected area Forest management/forest conservation Forestry protection measures Afforestation/reforestation Protection forest Classification/declassification
Geographical area
Arctic, Asia and the Pacific, Black Sea, Caspian Sea, CIS (Commonwealth of Independent States), Eastern Europe, Europe, Europe and Central Asia, North Pacific, North-West Pacific
Abstract

This Order establishes that forests located on the territory of protected areas shall be classified as protection forests. The aforesaid forests shall be managed in accordance with protection regime and purposeful use of land as established by the related legislation. The activities incompatible with purposeful use and useful properties of forests. In the forests located on the territory of protected areas shall be authorized main felling exclusively if select felling does not ensure substitution of forest species. Main felling shall be prohibited on the territory of national parks, biosphere reserves and other natural reserves if not otherwise envisaged by the legal regime of protected areas. Forest clearing in protected areas shall be carried out in accordance with the regulatory provisions related to protected areas. Reforestation in protected areas shall be carried out in the areas destroyed by forest fires, pests and pathogens and subsequently subject to main felling.

Full text
Russian
Website
www.rosleshoz.gov.ru