1. Forestry and Wildlife Committee of the Ministry of Agriculture
of the Republic of Kazakhstan

2. Conservation and development of wild animal and plant life
MISSION:
Conservation and development
of wild animal and plant life
GOALS:
Preservation of forest resources;
Preservation of wildlife resources;
Artificial forest reproduction and afforestation;
4. Reproduction of wildlife resources.
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3. Legal framework
(amendments to the legislation introduced
as per the Law of the RK of January 25, 2012)
The Forest Code of the Republic of Kazakhstan (2003);
The Law of the Republic of Kazakhstan “On Animal Wildlife Protection, Reproduction and Use» (2004);
The Law of the Republic of Kazakhstan “On Special Protected Natural Territories” (2006);
The 2020 Forest Economic Sector Development Program of Kazakhstan (draft).
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4. ЛЕСНОЙ ФОНД КАЗАХСТАНА

5. THE STRUCTURE OF THE FOREST FUND OF THE REPUBLIC OF KAZAKHSTAN
Ministry of Agriculture of the RK
FOREST FUND OF THE RK
The Office of Presidential Affairs of the President of the RK
Private forest fund
Forestry and Hunting Committee of the MNP of the RK
Regional akimats
Ministry of Transportation and Communications of the RK
Special protected
natural territories;
National-status organizations.
The Office of Natural Resources and Environmental Management
Kazakhstan Railway
Easement areas along railway tracks
Auto Highway Committee
State forestry establishments
Easement areas along auto highways
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6. LAND AREA DISTRIBUTION OF THE FOREST FUND
OF THE REPUBLIC OF KAZAKHSTAN BY CATEGORY
Total area – thous. ha (100%),
Including:
Glaciers
Sands
Other acreage
Total forest acreage,
including:
thous. ha (65.97%)
Swamps
Forest-covered
thous. ha (43.59%)
including forest crops
923.1 thous. ha (3.17%)
Waters
Plantations
3.0 thous. ha (0.01%)
Farmsteads
Open forest crops
186.6 thous. ha (0.65%)
Forest nurseries
4.4 thous. ha (0.02%)
Roads, forest corridors, fire lines
Acreage not covered with forests,
including:
thous. ha (21.70%)
Logging areas
158.3 thous. ha (0.55%)
Burned areas and failed plantations
445.2 thous. ha (1.54%)
Pastures
Forest acreage covered with forests, including forest crops 3.17%
Glades
thous. ha (7.1%)
thous. ha
Thin forest
thous. ha (12.46%)
Non-forest acreage,
including:
thous. ha (34.03%)
Cropland, lealand
119.5 thous. ha (0.42%)
Hayfields
Hayfields
344.5 thous. ha (1.20%)
Cropland, lealand
Pastures
thous. ha (20.22%)
Glades
Forest nurseries
Roads, forest corridors, fire lines
86.5 thous. ha (0.30%)
Open forest crops
Farmsteads
21.5 thous. ha (0.07%)
Logging areas
Waters
312.2 thous. ha (1.08%)
Plantations
Thin forest
Swamps
220.8 thous. ha (0.77%)
Burned areas and failed plantations
Sands
375.9 thous. ha (1.31%)
Glaciers
30.3 thous. ha (0.10%)
Other acreage
thous. ha (8.56%)

7. Current condition of the forestry science.
More than 3600 scientific articles published
More than 250 production recommendations and other legal and procedural documents drafted
92 protection documents,
including 7 patents for common pine species and 2 innovation patents, received

8. THE LIST OF COMPLETED PROGRAMS ON FORESTRY SECTOR DEVELOPMENT
Forests of Kazakhstan Sectoral Program; Zhasyl Yel Sectoral Program; Zhasyl Yel Sectoral Program; Zhasyl Damu Sectoral Program.
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9. Major forestry sector indicators based on outcomes of previous programs
Динамика лесных пожаров на территории гослесфонда
Forest reproduction and afforestation efforts dynamics
Forest fires on the territory
of the national forest fund
Afforestation, planting, thous. ha
Q-ty of cases
Forest area, ha
Including forest-covered, ha
Illegal logging dynamics on the territory
of the national forest fund
Динамика незаконных рубок в гослесфонде
Saiga population dynamics, thous. heads
Динамика численности сайгаков, тыс. особей
Q-ty of illegal logging cases
Volume of illegally cut forest, m3
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10. Major challenges within the forest sector
1. Low financial and technical capacity and poorly developed infrastructure of forestry organizations; 2. Absence of sectoral forest pathology service and sector-specific air vehicle fire-fighting fleet, which prevents timely detection, localization and elimination of hazardous loci of pests, wood diseases and forest fires; 3. Unsatisfactory quality of forest crops, insufficient volume of sanitation felling aimed at taking of care of the young forest; 4. Insufficient scientific support and absence of innovative technologies, including for processing low-grade deciduous timber and timber waste;
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11. Major challenges within the forest sector
5. Insufficient legal and social protection of the forestry sector employees whose work is associated with life and health hazards, extremely low remuneration of specialists’ work;
6. Absence of economic incentives for private afforestation and low availability of financial resources;
7. Low qualifications of the forestry sector employees;
8. Absence of fully-fledged specialized forestry regulating bodies on the level of regional akimats as well as local coordinated personnel policies.
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12. Prerequisites for an integrated resolution of issues within the forest economic sector of the Rk
1. Preservation, development and increasing productivity of national forests; 2. Decreasing import dependency and increasing investment attractiveness of logging and timber processing industry; 3. Expanding cooperation within the CIS, Customs Union and EAEU.
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13. Objectives of the 2020 Forest Economic Sector Development Program of Kazakhstan
1. Decreasing losses and expanding national forest acreage:
1) Increasing the efficiency of forest security and protection measures as well as forest reproduction efforts, increasing their productivity and expanding afforestation;
2) Developing the wood material base by strengthening state support of private afforestation and expansion of the private forest fund.
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14. Objectives of the 2020 Forest Economic Sector Development Program of Kazakhstan
2. Creating suitable conditions for increased competitiveness of the national logging and timber processing industry.
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15. State support of private afforestation
1. State support of private afforestation is done in the following way:
1) compensation (up to fifty percent) of costs associated with the establishment and cultivation of plantations of fast-growing tree and shrub species for industrial and energy purposes;
2) compensation (up to fifty percent) of costs associated with the establishment and development of private forest nurseries.
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16. EXPECTED RESULTS OF THE FOREST ECONOMIC SECTOR DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM
1. Increased yearly volumes of forest reproduction and afforestation; 2. Established green zones around cities and urban greening; 3. Improved protection of forests against forest fires, pests and wood diseases; 4. Developed plantation cultivation and private afforestation with further deep processing of produced timber; 5. Developed hunting farms, an established game breeding center; 6. Expanded network of special protected natural territories to ensure preservation of the country’s biodiversity.
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