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Access
Silva's documents in Russian Translation here.
Since
1993, the Silva Forest Foundation has been working with San Francisco-based
Pacific Environment to share Silva’s ideas about ecosystem-based
conservation planning in boreal forests with Russian organizations
and Indigenous people. Silva’s Herb and Susan Hammond have
traveled to Russia in 2003, 1995, and 1993. Silva has hosted delegations
of Russians in 1994, 1996, 1998, 2002, and 2004. A number of Silva’s
documents have been translated into Russian by staff from Pacific
Environment and are posted on this website.
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Towering
volcanoes dominate the Kamchatka landscape.
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A
few of the Koriak and Itelman participants at the Kamchatka conference. |
Silva
Travels to Kamchatka and Kemerovo Region, October 2003
During a trip organized by Pacific Environment of San Francisco,
Herb and Susan Hammond spent three weeks in Kamchatka and Kemerovo
Region in October 2003.
Kamchatka:
Surrounded by Kamchatka’s spectacular volcanoes, Herb delivered
a two day workshop in translation to a conference of 60 people
representing Kamchatka’s Indigenous peoples and scientists
working for protection of the peninsula’s biodiversity.
During the workshop, Herb shared Silva’s methodology of
ecosystem-based conservation planning. As a summary activity,
participants divided into groups from various geographic places
and created a map of their area, using ecosystem-based principles.
Groups then shared their maps with all conference participants.
The maps were amazing and showed that you don’t always lose
something in translation! |
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Herb
Hammond presents in English while Misha Jones provides simultaneous
translation during workshop. |
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portion of the Kamchatka landscape. |
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Participants
create an ecosystem-based conservation map of their home area.
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Participant
presenting group map to Conference.
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Kemerovo
Region: The Hammonds traveled from Kamchatka to Kemerovo
Region and were hosted by Sasha and Lyuba Abramachov in the city
of Mezdurechensk. Sasha and Lyuba are from the Shoret Indigenous
people and are working very hard to document the history and culture
of their people. Sasha is beginning an ecosystem-based conservation
plan that will form the foundation of an application for a Territory
of Traditional Nature Use, a designation recently made available
to Indigenous people in Russia. The Hammonds visited the town of
Tashtagol, neighbouring Shoret villages, and the forests of the
region. |
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Part
of a Shoret village. |
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Kemerovo
Region hosts Sasha and Lubya Abramachov.
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Old
Growth Forest near Tashtagol |
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Between Russian and British Columbia Indigenous People |
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Xaxli'p's
Art Adolph and Silva's Herb Hammond explain mapping to Russian
Indigenous leaders.
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In
late June of 2002, six indigenous leaders from Siberia and the
Russian Far East spent two days with the Xaxli’p First Nation
and Silva’s Herb Hammond in Lillooet to learn about the
ecosystem-based and traditional use mapping prepared for Xaxli’p
traditional territory.
Xaxli’p
has prepared extensive traditional use mapping of their territory.
SFF worked with Xaxli’p to prepare an ecosystem-based plan
that protects and maintains biodiversity and identifies places
where Xaxli’p can develop economic activities. This project
represents the first time that traditional use information and
western scientific analysis have been combined, giving Xaxli’p
a powerful set of information for their ongoing discussions with
government and industry.
Indigenous
groups in Russia are beginning to plan how to regain control of
their traditional lands and establish viable economic opportunities
that are consistent with their traditional values.
Xaxli’p
were generous hosts for the Russian guests, providing salmon feasts
and traditional singing and dancing.
The
visit between the Russian indigenous people and Xaxli’p
was organized by Pacific Environment of Berkeley, California.
Pacific Environment also provided simultaneous translation services.
SFF
and Xaxli’p have published their methodology of combining
traditional use and ecosystem-based information on an international
web site hosted by Both Ends Foundation based in the Netherlands.
The article is entitled Protecting Native Lands at www.bothends.org/encycl/cases/. |
Workshop
for Russian Foresters, September 1999 |
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In
mid-September 1999, five Russian foresters and two interpreters
arrived at SFF’s school facility in Salmo for seven intense
days of training in ecosystem-based landscape and stand level management.
The state foresters (equivalent to our Ministry of Forests) are
from the Lake Baikal region and other areas in southern Siberia.
Each forester has responsibility for large areas of forest.
Instruction was provided by forester Herb Hammond. Highlights of
the training included visits to the Ministry of Forests’ West
Arm Demonstration Forest on Kootenay Lake and to private forests
being managed by Reiner Muenter. An unexpected encounter with a
skunk, an animal not found in Russia, enlivened the visit with a
first-hand presentation of its very effective defence mechanism.
The Russians’ visit was organized by Pacific Environment,
based in Berkeley, California. Pacific Environment has carried out
forestry projects in Russia for many years. Translators Dave Martin
and Lisa Tracy worked hard to accurately relay ideas across both
language and cultural barriers. SFF chef Shannon Hammond made sure
everyone was well fed. |
Sustainable
Forestry in Krasnoyarsk Region, 1993-1996
At
the invitation of Pacific Environment, in 1993 Susan and Herb
Hammond spent three weeks as part of a group of foreign experts
visiting the Russian Far East and Krasnoyarsk Region to visit
various forest communities and operations. In Krasnoyarsk, the
group met with scientists from the Scientific Research Institute,
government foresters, and the head of operations of a village
sawmill.
In
1994, five of the Russians visited by the Hammonds came to Canada
to learn more about Silva’s method of working with communities
to prepare ecosystem-based conservation plans. While visiting
the Silva office, the Russians were hosted by local Doukhobors
whose ancestors immigrated from Russia in the early 1900s. The
Russians were amazed that the Doukhobors still speak Russian after
so many years in Canada. |
Russian forestry practitioners
visit Silva and stay with local Doukhobor families.
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In 1995, Herb Hammond returned to Russia, again
to the Krasnoyarsk region and also to the area near Barnaul not
far north of the Mongolian border.
In
1996, Russians from Krasnoyarsk region made a return visit to
Canada. |
