About 70% of the forestry workers of the Republic of Tajikistan are not majoring on Forestry, but mostly local personnel who do not have a special education, do not know basic knowledge of assessing the state of forests and forest management.
Nowadays, none of any forestry has a management plan. Moreover, no forest inventory has been carried out for more than 28 years. Therefore, there is no reliable data on the state of forest biodiversity in forestry.
For about twenty years, middle-level employees - these foresters, forest foremen and forest rangers have not taken advanced training courses in the section ?Forestry?, ?monitoring and evaluation of forests?. Therefore, the professional abilities of an average forestry?s employee are very limited and do not meet the requirements necessary for sustainable forestry development.
The objective of the project is to strengthen the capacity of forest workers and specialists through professional training on the conservation and sustainable use of forest resources in three ecosystems. Conservation of biodiversity in terms of population-species and ecosystems is one of the sustainable development of the natural environment. The ecosystem approach considers biological diversity, based on the conditions of its existence and adaptation to the environment, and will make it possible to more sustainably preserve communities of different levels of organization in various natural and geographical conditions.
Development of a national program for advanced training of foresters and rangers and their discussion at a round table with the participation of key stakeholders such as representatives of local jamoats, non-governmental organizations and nature conservation departments.