TWO DAYS BEFORE
NOUVELLE INITIATIVE POUR LA BIKIN RIVER (WWF Russia, ce jour) avant la Dead line du 29 Juin.
June 27 at the village meeting was held, initiated by the deputies of the Duma Pozharsky Municipal District in conjunction with indigenous communities "Tiger" and the public Luchegorsk. The rally was attended by more than seven hundred people, including representatives of the community "Tiger", as well as residents Pozharsky Guberovskogo, Ignatyevskoe, Fedosevskogo, Luchegorsk Nagornenskogo outposts and district.
"We demand to immediately stop felling of valuable and protective forests, IN THE MUNICIPAL DISTRICT Pozharsky" - said in the resolution meeting. Residents Pozharsky district also require:
1. 1. Remove from the auction, No 63 of 29.6.2011, the Lot No 9 of forest management of Primorsky Territory, banning the offer for sale located in
AAC
2. 2. Company to withdraw the application
3. 3. Make changes to forestry legislation that would expressly prohibit the transfer of valuable (and nut production zones), and protective forest areas in
the lease for timber harvesting. "Legal Regime of valuable forests," Forest Code in the
following paragraph:
4. 4. Making a federal protected status virgin forests of middle and upper reaches of the Bikin River, creating a traditional subsistence territories of indigenous peoples.
5. 5. Carry out a prosecutor's investigation into the legality of providing valuable and protective forests in the region of Primorsky Krai Pozharsky timber companies to implement investment projects on construction of timber production.
6. 6. No 82 Ensure compliance with federal law on April 30, 1999 No 82 "On Guarantees of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples of the Russian Federation", which obliges the authorities to ensure the rights of indigenous peoples to defend their native habitat, traditional lifestyle and economy, enshrines the right to participate in decision-making authority on their territory. Securing it to the appropriate legal act at the regional level.
7. 7. Conduct a negotiation to establish territories of traditional nature use of indigenous peoples in federal middle and upper reaches of the river Bikin.
8. 8. for the preservation of ecological corridors on a ridge in accordance with Strelnikov
700 people voted "for" resolution, one - two against and abstentions.
The position of the regional administration at the meeting voiced the head of the Primorsky Krai forestry Dmitry Rybnikov, who said that the company "Les Export" officially denied lease new sites with protective forests in the middle reaches of the Bikin.
However, it should be recalled that the forest management of Primorye Territory and previously denied JSC "Les Export", but the company has successfully challenged this decision in the arbitration court of Vladivostok, to rule in favor of loggers.
At this point in the area under Pozharsky appeals in defense of Bikin forests collected about three thousand signatures.
World Wildlife Fund has started collecting signatures on a petition to the Prime Minister of Russian Federation V. Putin.
L'HOMMAGE
Les communautés de la rivière Bikin rendent hommage à Boris Shibnev, le gardien de la "Far East Amazon" (source : WWF Russia, hier)
"Bikin does not fade in my heart feeling of love and respect for nature" - wrote Shibnev in his book "Living a bikini. Concerned notes " . With this book, his life's work, people know this mighty river, mentally traveling with the author on the bed of Bikini and its tributaries. Today, when the teacher is no longer with us, to defend against the invasion of Timber Bikin help his students and he has created in the village of Upper Pass Museum of Nature Protection.
The Appeal villagers brought to higher authorities information on the challenge of cutting sites in the nut-harvesting Pozharskaya pool area Bikin River and expressed their extreme concern about the prevailing situation:
thus the pool is included in the Bikin preliminary list of World Natural Heritage by UNESCO.
APPEL POUR LA RIVIERE BIKIN
Suite du dossier de la Bikin (voir les pages des 7 et 8 juin ) : appel des habitants aux autorités fédérales (source : WWF Russia, ce jour). Vous pouvez lire la lettre à partir de la page du site
http://www.wwf.ru/news
288 residents of the village of Krasny Yar turned to the Russian Government and the people of Primorye to support them in that brooked no delay case: save the last virgin on earth array Ussuri taiga.
June 20 gathering was held Krasnoyarskoye residents of a rural settlement area Pozharsky Primorsky Territory, which was attended by 288
residents of the national village. Chairmen of gatherings was elected Uza Alex Laulanovich, Secretary Markina
Zinaida. Discussed at the gathering of
information about the company filed
Unanimously adopted an appeal to the Prime Minister of Russian Federation С.М. Putin, the Governor of Primorsky Krai, SM Darkin, Head of Federal Forestry Agency of the Russian Federation V. Maslyakova, Minister of Natural Resources and
Environment Y. Trutnev, Presidential Plenipotentiary in the Far Eastern Federal District VI Ishayev, С.Н. President of
RAIPON RF SN Kharyuchi, member of Public Chamber of Russia Sulyandziga, Vice President of TRAC Support All-Russia party
New step before 29 June, official date for logging selling.
INSPIRATION
A L'APPROCHE DE L'ETE.... Vision poétique des tigres et panthères d'Asie centrale par un grammairien latin du 3ème siècle.
Extrait de « Polyhistor » , par Caïus Julius Solin, grammairien latin de la première moitié du IIIème siècle .
Traduit pour la première fois en français par M. A. Agnant,... 402 p.
C. L. F. Panckoucke, 1847.
Bibliothèque latine-française. Seconde série
Chapitre 18.
…Viennent ensuite les Cimmériens, et les Amazones dont le pays s'étend jusqu'à la mer Caspienne, qui, après avoir
traversé l'Asie, se jette dans l'océan Scytique. Puis, à une longue distance, sont les Hyrcaniens, qui occupent l'embouchure de l'Oxus (Amou Daria).
C'est un pays hérissé de forêts, plein de bêtes farouches,
et où abondent les tigres, animaux remarquables par les taches dont ils sont marqués, et par leur agilité. Ils sont de couleur fauve; cette couleur ondée de bandes noires leur donne un aspect
dont la variété est loin de déplaire. Je ne sais si leurs élans tiennent à leur vélocité naturelle plutôt qu'à l'emportement. Il n'est point d'espace si long qu'ils ne franchissent en un instant;
point d'intervalle qu'ils ne fassent à l'instant disparaître. Et cette puissance de vitesse, ils la développent surtout quand il s'agit de leurs petits. Quand ils sont sur la trace de ceux qui
les leur ravissent, en vain se succèdent les cavaliers les uns aux autres, en vain les ravisseurs emploient-ils tout moyen de fuite, de ruse, pour emporter leur proie : la mer seule est un
obstacle à la célérité de ces animaux. On a souvent remarqué que, s'ils voient ceux qui leur ont ravi leurs petits repasser la mer, dans leur rage impuissante ils se couchent sur le rivage, et
semblent punir leur propre lenteur par une mort volontaire. Au reste, c'est à peine si sur une portée on peut enlever un seul petit.
Les panthères aussi sont nombreuses en
Hyrcanie ; leur peau est semée de taches rondes : on dirait des yeux de couleur rousse; leur peau est tantôt bleuâtre, tantôt blanche. On prétend que l'odeur et même le regard de la panthère
charment les animaux; que dès qu'ils la sentent, ils accourent par troupes, et qu'ils ne sont effrayés que par son aspect farouche. Elle cache donc sa tête, laissant voir seulement le reste de
son corps, pour pouvoir ensuite dévorer avec sécurité les animaux que son aspect a fascinés. Les Hyrcaniens, car l'homme essaye de tous les moyens, la font périr par le poison plutôt que par le
fer. Ils frottent avec de l'aconit des lambeaux de chair, qu'ils jettent à l'endroit où aboutissent plusieurs chemins; dès que la panthère en a mangé, elle est suffoquée. Aussi a-t-on nommé cette
plante pardalianche . Mais alors ces animaux combattent le poison en avalant des excréments humains : ce remède leur est fourni par l'instinct. Ils ont d'ailleurs la vie si dure, que même avec
les intestins hors du corps, ils luttent encore longtemps contre la mort.
DES CENTAINES DE PATTES D'OURS...
Saisie d'animaux sauvages en pièces détachées, la plus importante dans la Russie post soviétique. La cargaison en route pour la Chine contenait notamment plus de 1040 pattes d'ours bruns, correspondant à un minimum de 261 individus abattus et mutilés...
Source : WWF Russia, ce jour.
(EXTRAIT)
When scanning the car revealed that the anterior wall of the cargo compartment is located a cache in which the space between two walls were found bags full of merchandise, individually packaged and wrapped with tape. 26 In the bags were 26
Smuggled goods confiscated. Are ongoing activities of inquiry and examination of goods. Decision to institute
criminal proceedings under Article 188 of the Criminal Code
"Delayed Party bear paws - one of the greatest of all time modern Russian customs officials - says program coordinator of WWF-Russia Amur branch biodiversity Sergei Aramilev. - Killing a bear, whose image is consistently associated with Russia, just for the paws and the gall - the barbaric and low crime. To form such a party must have been at least 261 individual shoot! Mutilated corpses of the same animals probably thrown to rot in the woods, where they have become carriers of infections and diseases. "
INCENDIES : CONSTAT ACCABLANT
YAKOUTIE EN FLAMMES
Les incendies frappent encore beaucoup plus le territoire qu'en 2010. Le diagnostic est clair : il ne s'agit pas de changer de politique environnementale, mais d'en élaborer vraiment une, cohérente, digne de ce nom (WWF Russia, ce jour).
Russian Emergency Situations Ministry reported that the total area of wildland fires in Russia since the beginning of fire season this year, more than in the corresponding period in 2010 almost tripled to more than 600,000 hectares.
Of course, these estimates may be quite different from reality: for example, to independent estimates, the area of forest in only one region, Yakutia, exceeded 1 million hectares this year.
WWF Russia considers measures taken by state
authorities to prevent and combat forest fires on the results of the fire disaster last year, proved to be inadequate.
Remains unclear responsibility for the prevention of forest fires on the territory of the former forest farms and forest belts. Not conduct outreach work with the public - it is replaced by a ban on visits forest. Program to flood the peat is implemented effectively. Despite the unprecedented recent years cash infusion in the management of forests (in 2011 the size of forest financing more than 33 billion rubles, which is more than 2-fold increase over the previous year), yet failed to ensure the effective management of forests - primarily because of the imperfection of the Forest Code (2006) and inefficient system of forest management in general.
FFA continues to spend huge sums on bureaucratic procedures. SPA
recently became aware of the fact that Federal State Unitary Enterprise
"Given the unplanned revenue from the sale of oil and gas, the state could make a long-term investment in a radical reform of forest management, provide proper care for them in the development of the region, high economic efficiency of forestry and fire safety in the woods. Only one restoration of the state forest protection will give the village a real and necessary work of the country not less than 70 thousand people and clean air smog from peat, but that will invest in overcoming the bureaucratic difficulties that state to itself and creates an as yet unknown ", - says Nikolay Shmatkov .
The most difficult situation with a fire develops in Yakutia, the Khanty-Mansiysk, Ugra, the Irkutsk Region and the Khabarovsk and Krasnoyarsk regions.
A "significant impact on improving fire safety in forests has anthropogenic activities of man. Cluttered cutting, burning, raw and barbaric past conduct "clean" under the bed of the future reservoir Boguchanskaya HPP resulted in a sharp increase in fire danger in the Angara region, the region where the harvested one-fifth of all Russian forests - commented forest program coordinator of WWF-Russia in the Altai-Sayan ecoregion Alexander Bryukhanov. - According to our estimates, in an area where being in bed lesosvodka future reservoir, were thrown hundreds of thousands of cubic meters of felled timber. According to documents, this territory is already "cleaned", but actually in the area of future flooding is now just an abandoned litter of stem wood averages 30 to 70 cubic meters per hectare, and in some places reaches up to 150 cubic meters per hectare.
"For the outrage perpetrated in the woods, innocent people have to pay. Now tens of thousands of Angara breathing smog from fires, and 20 thousand people were deprived of electricity due to the fact that out of control fires destroyed transmission lines ", - said Alexander Bryukhanov...
ENJEUX POLITIQUES
Devant les associations de défense de l'environnement, le Président Dmitri Medvedev a mis en cause aujourd'hui le mauvais travail du gouvernement qui, au delà des effets d'annonce, n'élabore que partiellement et trop lentement une armature législative cohérente concernant la protection de la vie sauvage en Russie (source : WWF Russia, ce jour)
http://www.wwf.ru/news/article/8446
Pour plus de précisions, détails sur le site présidentiel : discours de Nizhny Novgorod du 9 Juin
http://eng.kremlin.ru/news/2362
et résumé par le WWF Russia le 11 Juin
http://www.wwf.ru/news
Ce travail "à l'ancienne", inefficace et peu productif, va directement contre les intérêts nationaux du pays. Celui - ci se trouve totalement en porte à faux avec ses financeurs allemands sur la rivière Bikin (voir blog des 7 et 8 juin), les touristes chinois, japonais et coréens sur les îlots sauvages du Primorye, qui viennent spécialement en ces lieux admirer le lotus rose de Komarov (voir blog du 2 Juin).
BIKIN EN DANGER : PRECISIONS
COMPTE RENDU DE LA CONFERENCE D'AUJOURD'HUI A VLADIVOSTOK (signalée hier sur ce blog). Nous attendons maintenant la décision du Premier Ministre Vladimir Poutine. Cette affaire concerne aussi les autorités chinoises : la Bikin est un affluent de la rive droite de l'Oussouri, elle coule en Russie et en Chine, ses espèces végétales et animales les plus emblématiques se trouvent de part et d'autre de la frontière.
At a press conference held on June 8 in the office of the Amur branch of WWF Russia, this requirement has been directly addressed those
present there heads UAB
As it became known in May Company
Leased by logging the Bikin River basin against the interest of the Primorsky Territory in Russia in general.
The basis for applications UAB
June 5 at the gathering of residents of a rural settlement Krasnoyarovskogo Pozharsky region of Primorsky Krai adopted an appeal to regional and federal authorities with a request to prevent the transfer of a lease for timber harvesting area of middle and upper reaches of the Bikin River.
For details, see the interview with Denis Smirnov pages ecological newspaper Panda Times (pandatimes.ru)
Deux jours auparavant, les autorités régionales chargées de l'environnement annonçaient leur appui total aux projets de protection du tigre dans son écosystème (incluant l'utilisation de drones contree les braconniers, voir le site officiel du Premier Ministre Vladimir Poutine)
http://premier.gov.ru/tiger/eng/news/15512/
L'AMAZONE DU FAR EAST DOIT REJOINDRE L'AMAZONE DE L'EUROPE (voir blog du 11 Avril 2011) via un cordon alluvial eurasien.
Les tigres, aux côtés de beaucoup d'autres, s'en sortiront alors très bien par eux mêmes.Pour des siècles. Le reste est
littérature.
MAUVAIS VENT SUR LA RIVIERE BIKIN
Demain, le WWF Russia et l'association des populations autochtones du Primorye donneront une conférence conjointe à Vladivostok sur la déforestation qui risque de détruire le coeur même de l'unique pays du tigre existant à ce jour sur le territoire russe (source: WWF Russia, aujourd'hui), la forêt alluviale de la Bikin river, riche en saumons géants Hucho taimen dont les corps gigantesques partiellement dévorés par les ours et les tigres géants, les loups gris et rouges, enrichissent la forêt qui les protège en retour. Des fonds allemands considérables avaient contribué à la sauvegarde de ce lieu où les populations peuvent vivre en biodiversité totale ( selon la définition de l'anthropologue Pedro Galhano Alves).
Si ce projet se concrétise, les progrès sur le terrain accomplis l'an dernier seront radicalement remis en cause.
Rien n'est encore joué...
June 8 WWF Russia and the Association of Indigenous Peoples of the Primorsky Territory conducted in Vladivostok, a press conference on the threat of deforestation in Primorye key areas for the Amur tiger.
In May 2011 an agreement was signed between the forest management of Primorsky Territory and Joint-Stock
Company "Les Export" to lease the company to a large timber forest in the lower reaches of the
Bikin River. This array includes a walnut-fishing zone in Zvenevskom district forestry, as well as the territory of the reserve
created
"Les
Export" is also applied in forest management Primorsky Krai to conclude a lease agreement for the harvesting of timber on the site in the middle reaches of the Bikin River,
including most of the Bikin nut-fishing zones. This area in 1993 was officially declared the territory of traditional
nature, and in June 2009 was leased to indigenous communities
By clearing of protective forests in the basin of the Bikin River will be provided with raw materials manufacturing plant a
three-layer parquet Company
- Can I nominate the area for inclusion in the list of World Natural Heritage Site by UNESCO and give it away to the wheelhouse to the project for the production of parquet?
- Why forestry campaign hard to seek the right to cut protective forests in the Primorsky Territory?
- Can the implementation of such projects to reduce the attractiveness of the Far East for foreign investors ahead of the APEC summit in Vladivostok?
These and other questions will be raised at a press conference to be held June 8 at 14.00 at the office of WWF-Russia Amur branch at: Vladivostok, Verkhneportovaya, 18-a.
In a press conference:
- Director of the Amur Branch of WWF Russia's Yuri Darman
- Vice-President of the Association of Indigenous Peoples of the Primorsky Territory Igor Kukchenko
- Head of Forest Programme of WWF-Russia Amur branch Denis Smirnov.
On the same week in Moscow to meet President of the Regional Association of Indigenous Peoples of the Primorsky Territory Vladimir Shirko and the head of Forest Programme of WWF-Russia Yelena Kulikova journalists
ILOTS SAUVAGES
MENACE DE DEFORESTATION SUR LES DERNIERS ÎLOTS INTACTS DU PRIMORYE.
Vente des parcelles prévue le 29 Juin. Source : Phoenix Fund, 27 Mai.
The heads of Luchegorsk, Fedoseev, Nagorny and Pozharsky towns opposed the sell by auction of Luchegorsky and Pozharsky district forestry for cutover. Officials co-operated with conservationists and NGOs in their appeal to Primorsky krai governor Sergei Darkin.
The Primorsky forest management notified the auction sale of the rights to the conclusion of lease contracts for a forest plot in Pozharsky district with a total area of 23 571 hectares. Auction
is appointed to 29th of June, 2011, the reserved price of a subject - 477 thousand rubles. It was stated that the given site "is burdened by the right of citizens to freely stay in woods and
harvest wild-growing and non-wood forestry products". The exploitation of woods by the tenant is specified as "wood production".
These forestlands are not only a greenbelt of Pozharsky area settlements but also a drinking water protective area on which Luchegorsk town depends on clean water and where the relic lotus of Komarov grows.
"These are the last islets of forest ecosystem untouched by logging. Considering adverse ecological conditions in the whole district, and in Luchegorsk town in particular, it is necessary to take all possible measures to prohibit cutting in these area", - ecologists say.
Today Pozharsky district desperately needs a large forest range. Annual emissions of polluting substances (including emissions from SDPP) to atmosphere make about 100 thousand tons a year. As a consequence – Pozharsky forge ahead of other districts of Primorye on oncological diseases.
The Phoenix Fund adhered to this appeal. “The forests of Pozharsky district are important for both people and wildlife, especially the endangered Amur tigers. Habitat loss is one of the biggest threats to big cat’s survival and logging in its site will significantly aggravate the situation. We hope that Krai Administration would not let the auction happen”, – says Sergei Bereznuk, director of the Phoenix Fund.
