Forests Monitor - Russian Far East and Siberia

See: FSF Home Page	Friends of the Siberian Forests (FSF) is a Krasnoyarsk based non-governmental environmental organisation dedicated to the protection of the Siberian taiga (boreal) forests. Founded by Dr. Andrei Laletine, Dr. Prof. Dmitry Vladyshevsky, Dr. Prof. Rosa Babintseva and other forest activists and scientists, the NGO has been in the forefront of activism and public education on sustainable forest management in Siberia and in Russia in general. FSF started its activities in 1992. It organised regional, national and international conferences and workshops on conservation and sustainable management of Siberian forests. FSF significantly contributed to the creation of the national park "Shushensky Bor" (relic pine forest in Southern Siberia) and several 'zakazniks" (nature reserves) and natural monuments. FSF activists published several books and many articles in Russian and English proving the necessity to protect old-growth (ancient) forest of Siberia. The main objectives of FSF are to contribute to the following: safeguarding the integrity of natural forest cover; providing access to ecological information; increasing the ecological awareness of the population; arguing for forest management based on sustainable forest utilisation; eradicating the mind-set that natural resources are inexhaustible; strengthening the social-ecological components of forest legislation.
See: BROC Home Page	The Bureau for Regional Outreach Campaigns (BROC) is a regional organisation for activists and advocacy. BROC is dedicated to increasing awareness of environmental protection and sustainable resource use. It was established after an informal group of environmental journalists, policy-makers, and scientists met to discuss the issues surrounding resource use in the region. These activists came together through discussing, analysing, and making governmental and management decisions about natural resource use in the Russian Far East. Practical activities started in 1992 with collaborative non-violent action against destructive logging in the area with Greenpeace Russia. BROC registered as an official non-profit organization in early 1997. BROC's team has produced a television program called Zapovedano to analyse problems of natural resource use in the region for the past eight years. The main objectives of BROC are: to provide monitoring of resource use in the region; to lobby to strengthen the governmental institutions responsible for environmental control and protection; to stop destruction of natural resources in the Russian Far East; to campaign for an environmentally sustainable lifestyle and mentality, particularly for decision makers.
	This website is part of the project Building capacity in NGOs in the Russian Far East and Siberia to monitor illegal logging operations and the timber trade. It has been produced with financial assistance from the European Union. Its content is the sole responsibility of Forests Monitor (FM), which co-ordinated the project, and can in no way be taken to reflect the views of the European Union.