Strategic Agenda 2020 for the Romanian State Forests

Management

NATIONAL FOREST ADMINISTRATION-ROMSILVA

Bucharest, September 2015

FORMEC-BRASOVSEPTEMBER 26TH

2017

PUBLIC AUTHORITY FOR FORESTS

FOREST MANAGEMENT OF ROMANIAN FORESTS

MINISTRYOFWATERSANDFORESTS

REGIONALFORESTGUARDES(9)

GENERALDIRECTORATEFORFORESTS

NATIONALFORESTADMINISTRATION-ROMSILVA

PRIVATEFORESTSDISTRICTS

(145)

FORESTDIRECTORATES(41)

FORESTDISTRICTS(313)

NATIONALANDNATURALPARKSADMINISTRATIONS(22)

DIRECTORATEFORHORSEBREADING GAME@HUNTINGMUSEUM

POSADA

Dynamics of the forest ownership-hectares

• Forest area at 1st of January 1991 was 6.341.260 ha

• In accordance with Law nr.18/1991 490.000 ha of forests were restituted tothe former owners.

• In accordance with Law nr.1/2000, 1.600.000 ha were restituted.

• In accordance with Law nr.247/2005 more than 1.000.000 ha were restituted

• Forest are owned by the State at 1st of January 2017 is 3.145.793 ha (49%from the Romanian Forests)

FSC CERTIFICATION ON 2,32 MILLION HA

0

2,000,000

4,000,000

6,000,000

8,000,000

1985 1990 1995 2000 2005 2010 2015 2020

Forest ownership structure in Romania

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49%

23%

11%

14%3%

State forest

Private forest

Communities

Towns and villages

Church & educationalinstitutions

State forest composition:

• 26% coniferous (Norway spruce, silver fir , Scots pine,larch, Douglas-fir);

• 31 % beech;

• 19 % oaks;

• 16 % various hard broadleaves ( hornbeam, black locust, maple, ash, wild cherry etc.);

• 8 % various soft broad-leaves (lime tree, poplars, willows etc.)

State forest structure by functional groups:

54%

46%Protection forests

Production forests

31%

42%

6%

11%

10% Water protection

Soil protection

Pollution & climatic

protection Forests with recreation

functionBiodiversity protection

Functional group I (protection forests) main attributes:

ADMINISTRATION COUNCIL

GENERAL DIRECTOR

DEPARTAMENTFOREST

REGENERATION AND

DEVELOPEMNT

DEPARTAMENTFOREST

MANAGEMENT

DEPARTAMENTCOMMERCIAL

ANDMARKETING

DEPARTAMENTIN

COORDINATIONGD

FINANCIAL DIRECTORATE

ADMINISTRATION PLAN -AC

MANAGEMENT PLAN-GD

NATIONAL FOREST ADMINISTRATION

ROMSILVA

Dynamics – forest regeneration (ha)

Promoting sylvicultural feelings we grow the natural regeneration

from 32,6% in 1991 to 59,1% in 2016.

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11

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20

15

Afforestations

Natural regeneration

Tending operations - (ha)

0

50,000

100,000

150,000

200,000

250,000

300,000

350,000

1985 1990 1995 2000 2005 2010 2015 2020

The area with tending operations is directly linked to the evolution of the

area of state forests.

Harvested timber (cubic meters)- dynamics

• For the next period of time, according to the forest management plans,

we plan on harvesting somewhere between 9-9,5 million cubic meteres

02,000,0004,000,0006,000,0008,000,000

10,000,00012,000,00014,000,00016,000,00018,000,000

Timber sale - cubic meters-

0

2,000,000

4,000,000

6,000,000

8,000,000

10,000,000

12,000,000

2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016

By Romsilva

Contractors

Standing timber

Dynamics of the timber price –standing timber- (Eur/cubic meter)

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5.00

10.00

15.00

20.00

25.00

30.00

35.00

40.00

Timber processed in Romsilva sawmills (cm)

106,316

230,342

95,241 100,696

88,100

29,7000

50,000

100,000

150,000

200,000

250,000

2000 2005 2010 2014 2015 2016

Illegal logging -(cm)

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50,000

100,000

150,000

200,000

250,000

300,000

Forest services and administration for private forest owners

(ha)

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800000

1000000

1200000

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Forest services

Administration

Hunting & Fishing

1990 1995 2000 2005 2010 2015 2016

727 724 682 565 516 265 254

Number of game reserves

Game complex and and game farms

Trout production

19 9 11 11 11

0

20

2000 2005 2010 2014 2015 2016

YEAR 2001 2003 2005 2007 2009 2011 2013 2014 2015 2016

Quantity(tones)

571 727 940 778 707 673 590 670 723 515

Protected areas management

Year 1990 2000 2005 2010 2015 2016

T RNP

T RNP T RNP T RNP T RNP T RNP

National Parks 13 13 11 3 13 12 13 12 13 12 13 12

Natural Parks 5 13 15 10 15 10 15 10

BiosferaReserves

1 1 1 1 1

Genetic resources management in state-owned horse breeding farms

Romsilva’s Horse Breeding Department, is currentlymanaging 12 stud farms and 4 stallion depots.

Romsilva Stud farms & Stallion Depots consist in:

• 2428 horses (national genetic heritage) - 94 stallions forreproduction, 679 mares, 869 foals, 734 stallions for publicreproduction.

• 13 horse breeds: Lipizzaner, Arabian, EnglishThoroughbred, Furioso North Star, Hucul, RomanianSporthorse, Trotter, Gidran, Nonius, Ardenes, BucovinaHorse

• 650 employees• 7 mil. Euros/year financial support from Romsilva

Romsilva is a member of European State Studs Association– ESSA, the Lipizzan International Federation – LIF, theHucul International Federation – HIF and the InternationalShagya-Araber Gesellschaft – ISG.

Investments in forest roads - million lei *2005 – 1 Eur=3.6 lei

*2016 – 1 Eur = 4.5 lei

12.18613.49912.60013.259

0.000 0.000

12.03310.838

13.372

18.95519.49121.567

0.000

5.000

10.000

15.000

20.000

25.000

2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016

Investments – million lei*2007 – 1 Eur=3.6 lei

*2016 – 1 Eur = 4.5 lei

13.32312.479

5.664

8.156

11.2069.65

10.53

15.65215.176

17.973

0

5

10

15

20

2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016

AGENDA 2020

The main objective of Romsilva is to develop sustainably, as well as to raise theprofessional competence of its employees and to maximize its own contribution to thequality of life, to preserving the biodiversity of the forest ecosystems and to protect theenvironment, focusing on the management of natural protected areas.

In order to fulfill its mission to sustainably manage the state-own forests in Romania,Romsilva promotes the following:

• Maintaining and encouraging the productive functions of forests

• Maintaining, preserving and increasing the protective functions of forest ecosystems

• Maintaining other social and economic functions of the forests

• Preserving and developing current forest resources

• Maintaining the health and vitality of forest ecosystems

• Maintaining, preserving and increasing the biodiversity of forest ecosystems

MANAGING FORESTS FOR IMPROVING

THE QUALITY OF LIFE

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