The article deals with issues related to the legal regulation of forest management in Russia and East Africa. The purpose of the study was a legal analysis of recent changes in the forest and environmental legislation of the countries under study, as well as the views of Russian and foreign scientists on the problems of the impact of legislative novels on the state of the forest fund.

In the course of writing the article, the main methods of scientific investigation were used: comparative legal, comparative historical, methods of description and interpretation, theoretical methods of formal and dialectical logic, as well as special scientific methods: legal-dogmatic and the method of interpreting of legal norms.

The authors reviewed the existing legal norms and statistical data, on the basis of which conclusions were drawn regarding the most optimal elimination of existing gaps and contradictions.

As a result of the analysis carried out by the authors, specific examples show the process of forming an array of legislation on the use and protection of forests, including certain groups of forest plantations and forest areas.