Environmental Raid in the Kazan Zoological and Botanical Garden
19 April 2013, Friday
Today at the initiative of the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan the campaign on cleaning of the Kazan Zoological and Botanical garden was carried out. Within the framework of a sanitary and ecological two-month campaign, students of the Industry and Environmental Safety Department of the Kazan State Technical University cleared the zoo territory out and prepared the soil for further flowers planting. Elena Gilmizyanova, the Principal Advisor of the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan, and Elena Muravyeva, the Head of the Industry and Environmental Safety Department, acted as organizers of the campaign.
Students of this Department have already established a good tradition to carry out ecological and educational campaigns in cooperation with the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan. This time students decided to make their contribution to the improvement of the territory of the Kazan Zoological and Botanical Garden.
Inspectors of the Central Department, together with representatives of the Kazan Interdistrict Environmental Prosecutor's Office and the Office of the Federal Service for State Registration, Cadastre and Cartography of the Republic of Tatarstan, conducted a survey of the territory of the Zelenodolsk district.
The events were held in the Zainsky district. The commission included inspectors from the Zakamsky Department of the Ministry of Ecology of the Republic of Tatarstan.
The Ministry of Ecology of the Republic of Tatarstan received an appeal from residents about violations of environmental legislation in the Yelabuga district. Inspectors from the Kama Department went to the site and confirmed the fact of dumping production and consumption waste into the territory of the Bug River water protection zone.