Authors:
Ya. V. VORONINA, senior lecturer,
V. N. KAPITSKIY, senior lecturer,
A. A. SEKACHEVA, senior lecturer,
A. A. ABDULINA, undergraduate student,
URAL STATE AGRARIAN UNIVERSITY (42 K. Liebknechta Str., 620075, Ekaterinburg)
Abstract. One of the most significant human rights is the right for the favorable environment. The threat of impossibility of full implementation of the major among human rights promptly accrues in connection with the worsening ecological situation. Environmental pollution and destruction of natural resources lead to a global anthropogenic catastrophe which needs to resist all possible means. Therefore questions of legal protection of natural resources are particularly acute today. Forest is one of the major natural resources. Legal protection allows to save and increase biological diversity of the forest. In the Russian legislation questions of legal protection of the woods are determined in “The forest code of the Russian Federation” from December 04, 2006 No 200-FZ (amendments from June 23, 2016). The forest legislation considers different provisions among which there are protection and forest conservation, control of the forest and increase in their potential, forest reproduction, support of rational use of timber for the purpose of support of society needs, paid use of the woods and many others. The study of features of the forest legislation in the countries of the European Union (EU) and in the United States of America (USA), and also comparing of legal forest protection in the Russian Federation with forest protection in the EU and the USA, will allow to reveal perspectives for further development of the question of natural resources protection. The comparative analysis of different legal systems and practice of implementation of the legislation will promote development of new instruments of forest conservation regulation in the legal framework. In the global plan use of experience of the different countries will allow to expand the arsenal of the funds allocated for improving the ecological situation.
Keywords: forest, forest code, USA, European Union, Russian Federation, legal forest protection.
