Transition to the sustainable forest management strategy in the Russian Far East ecoregion in the 21 century

The workshop participants – representatives of ecological movement, business and science from five countries have considered in their presentations as well as in the round tablediscussion the issues of transition from exhaustible to sustainable forest use in one of the most important forest ecoregions of the world – Far Eastern. There were discussed opportunities to combine rational multiple use of forests with preserving their biodiversity$ opportunities of sustainable (commercially profitable and ecologically safe) forest resources use in the South of the Russian Far East; current and prospective demand at forest markets for ecologically safe products and opportunities of theit production; issues of forest certification; mechsnisms of transition to sustainable forest management.