8. Russia

[Outline]
- Date and Venue: October 17, 2006 | Seoul, Republic of Korea
- Signatories: Respective Ministers of the Korea Forest Service and the Federal Agency for Forestry
- Objective: Facilitating stable timber supply and forest resources management

[History]
- 1st Forestry Cooperative Committee (2007): Discussion on responding to illegal logging, forest fire prevention, joint research on forest disease and pest control, and the organization of practical director-level meetings.
- 2nd Forestry Cooperative Committee (2009): Cooperation on firefighting operations, forestry investment, and joint research on forest disease and pest control.
- 3rd Forestry Cooperative Committee (2012): Forestry investment, cooperation in firefighting and pest control, exchange of students and researchers.
- 4th Forestry Cooperative Committee (2014): Publication of investment guides, exchange on aerial firefighting, joint research on forest disease and pest control, and review of MOU on raw material supply.
- 5th Forestry Cooperative Committee (2018): Implementation of the illegal logging trade restriction system, cooperation in forestry investment, proposal for Northeast Asia Desertification Land Degradation and Drought (DLDD) cooperation, and collaboration on conserving the diversity of forestry plant seeds.

[Forthcoming Plans]

- 6th Forestry Cooperative Committee