"Andres Talijärv is well acquainted with both forestry and nature conservation as he has been working in these fields for a long time," Jaanus Tamkivi, the Minister of the Environment, said. "He has the knowledge and the experience necessary for creating stronger links between these fields and developing them in a balanced manner. Andres Talijärv himself sees his primary task in strengthening the cooperation between different departments of the Ministry as well as its area of government and stakeholders. "We should set and agree on such objectives which take into consideration interests of the whole country," Talijärv said. Talijärv supervises the Nature Conservation and Forest Departments of the Ministry of the Environment. Talijärv has graduated from the Estonian Agricultural Academy in the field of forestry. He started working as deputy forester in Tallinn Green Belt Forestry Industry (Tallinna Rohelise Vööndi Metsamajand) in 1980 and was promoted to Chief Forester there. In 1992, Talijärv was made Director General of Forestry Board and became the Head of the Forest Department of the Ministry of the Environment in 2000. In recent years, he worked as Managing Director of Estonian Forest Industries Association. He has been active in several non-profit organisations related to nature conservation and forestry, for example as a member of the Management Board of Estonian Society of Foresters, and belonging to Estonian Forest Certification Council. He has been President and member of the Management Board of Estonian Hunters' Society as well as member of the Management Board of Estonian Society for Nature Conservation.
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