The World Wildlife Foundation presented its regional forest administration rating to the public recently. The research was carried out with the help of the National Rating Agency. The fund looked into the quality of forest management, forest use coordination, the efficiency of law enforcement mechanisms in the field, quality of forest resources, the forests’ growth power, and the economic efficiency and environmental sustainability of and public contribution to forest administration. The rating was also officially supported by Rosleskhoz, Rossiyskiye Lesniye Vesti reports.

Murmansk, Leningrad, Archangelsk, and Belgorod Regions as well as about fifteen other territories were rated ‘above average’ for the quality of forest administration.

The quality of forest management in Karelia, Mordovia, Chuvashia, Komi, and Mariy El was rated as ‘average’, as was that in Sverdlovsk, Irkutsk, Pskov, Kaliningrad, and Rostov Regions as well as that in Stavropol, Krasnoyarsk, Altai, Transbaikalia, and Khabarovsk Territories, in North Ossetia, Khakasia and in Khanty-Mansiysky, Yamalo-Nenetsky, and Chukotsky Autonomous Regions.

Novgorod, Orenburg, Novosibirsk, Kurgan, Omsk, and Amur Regions as well as Perm and Maritime Territories and Kalmykia, Dagestan, Ingushetia, the Chechen Republic, Kabardino-Balkaria, Karachayevo-Cherkesia, and Buryatia received ‘below average’ ratings.