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ENPI FLEG Program Improving Forest Law Enforcement and Governance in the European Neighborhood Policy East Countries and Russia The Program is implemented by the World Bank (WB), IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature) and WWF through a grant of the European Commission

What is FLEG? The Forest Law Enforcement and Governance (FLEG)

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ENPI FLEG Program Improving Forest Law Enforcement and Governance in the European Neighborhood Policy East Countries and Russia The Program is implemented by the World Bank (WB), IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature) and WWF through a grant of the European Commission. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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ENPI FLEG Program

Improving Forest Law Enforcement and Governancein the European Neighborhood Policy East Countries and Russia

The Program is implemented by the World Bank (WB), IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature)

and WWF through a grant of the European Commission

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More than 5 billion pounds of wood from Russia’s Primorski Krai region enters China every year (Zov Taigi, Pacific Environment, 2009)

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What is FLEG?

The Forest Law Enforcement and Governance (FLEG)process was initiated by the World Bank to combatthe threats posed to forests by illegal logging, trade,poaching and corruption. A series of MinisterialConferences paved the way: East Asia and the Pacific(2001), Africa (2003), Europe and North Asia (2005).

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Illegal Logging in Siberia (WWF, 2007)

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Timber in the train station at Suifenhe, China. The country is now the world’s largest importer of logs and exporter of finished wood products,

with much arriving from the Russian Far East (Lu Guang, 2009)

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• 80 % of the forests that originally covered the earth have been cleared or otherwise degraded by logging, mining, clearance for agriculture or urbanization. Logging for wood products is responsible for about one-third of total global deforestation

• An estimated €10–15 billion are lost through illegal logging globally each year

• The European Union causes almost €3 billion of this loss due to its trade with countries in the Amazon Basin, the Baltic States, the Congo Basin, East Africa, Indonesia and Russia

• 25% of Russia's timber exports originate from illegal logging according to the World Bank

Illegal Logging Facts

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Illegal logged wood at rural homestead (Ekaterine Nakashidze - ENPI FLEG- Georgia)

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ENPI FLEG

Promoting regional and international cooperation, law enforcement, governance

and transparency

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Illegal Logging in Bikin Valley (Mareike Aden, Russia 2009)

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Key Actions

• Promote effective national and regional FLEG action processes

• Increase national ownership and capacity

• Improve regional and national collaboration and knowledge sharing

• Promote effective engagement of key trading partners

• Strengthen continuation of the formal official FLEG process in the countries

• Foster sustainable forest management practices, and 

• Increase awareness and commitment of key stakeholders on FLEG

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Armenia

• Helping advance institutional and legal reforms;• Building public awareness and support for forest law

enforcement and governance;• Promoting private sector inclusion in the FLEG processes

Armenia, view of Koghb Community

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Azerbaijan

• Improve knowledge of forest management;• Increase awareness of forest practices and issues;• Develop sustainable forest management methods.

Azerbaijan, illegal logging in Lahij village

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Belarus

• Improve FLEG regulatory framework and efficiency;• Improve system of forest management, protection and

utilization of forest products recording;• Improve information transparency.

Belarus, Yelnya wetland, Ramsar Site and Globally important bird areas

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Georgia

• Raise awareness of FLEG;• Increase national ownership and improve FLEG planning;• Training and capacity building.

Georgia, Journalist shooting during field trip

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Moldova

• Training and capacity building;• Legislative analysis;• Analysis of socio-economic impacts of illegal logging.

Moldova, illegally logged tree

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Russia

• Increase efficiency of the forest legislation system;• Increase transparency and improve coordination among

forest governance governmental agencies;• Support rural livelihoods in forest areas.

Russian Federation, Abandoned timber in Buratia near Lake Baikal

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Ukraine

• Develop test and introduce an effective mechanism for public participation;

• Increase awareness;• Develop communications and information facilities.

Ukraine, Carpathian Region

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International Year of Forests - 2011

The United Nations General Assembly declared 2011 as the International Year of Forests to raise awareness on sustainable management, conservation and sustainable development of all types of forests.

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The International Year of Forests 2011 is designed to convey the theme of “Forests for People” celebrating the central role of people in the sustainable management, conservation and sustainable development of our world’s forests.

International Year of Forests - 2011

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