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The project “Strategies of ecological safety in the Russian Federation until 2025” goes through the procedure of public debate. The document is mindful of the priorities for the development of nature protection regulations defined by the Ministry of Natural Resources and Ecology of the Russian Federation earlier in the “Basic state policy in the field of ecological development in the Russian Federation until 2030”, as it is reported by the Press Service of the Ministry of Natural Resources and Ecology of the Russian Federation. The priorities in the field of environmental protection and

Heads of companies and organizations, leading ecological specialistsare invited to participate in the X All-RussianCongress “State regulation of nature protection and ecological safety assurance in 2016”.It is planned to hold the event on April6 – 7, 2016 in Moscow at the hotel “Baltschug Kempinski Moscow”. The event is organized by the Groupof companies «Agency for the social and economic development”.The criteria of assignment of the 4th category to the facilities exerting negative impact, the procedure

The remuneration paid to the citizens who have submitted the information on the violations of the nature protection legislation on the territory of the Republic of Tatarstan has been increased. Earlier, the citizen who provided photo or video information on the offender received one thousand rubles, and starting 2016 this sum has been increased to 1.5 thousand rubles. Moreover, the list of violations has also been expanded. Besides illegal placement of waste and illegal extraction of mineral resources, people can now also report on the restricted access to the public water facility or its coastline, on the violation of the mode of economic or other activity of the water protection area of the water facility and land damage (destruction of the fertile layer

The hot line number, the e-mail, the State Information System “People’s control”, the mobile application “School eco-patrol” are all accessible for the citizens to report on the nature protection violations. All the information received from the citizens is referred to the Republican Public Ecological Reception Office. The information on illegal extraction of common mineral resources, unauthorized landfills, restriction of the access to the water 

Creative teams of children’s educational and cultural institutions of the Republic of Tatarstan are invited to participate in the II Republican Ecological Festival and Contest “Rainbow-colored stage”.The event will be held on April 26 - 27, 2016 at 3 p.m. on the stage

The ecological holiday “World Water Day” will be held in Kazan on March 22nd at the Youth Center “Ak Bars”.The event will be held in the form of a presentation of achievements of underwater researchers of Tatarstan. During the first part of the event, the photo-exhibition of the underwater team of the Russian Geographical Society named after Alexey Leonov will be opened. The members of the team will present photos from expeditions when they set the world records – “The pole of Cold”, “Antarctic-10

All pupils are invited to participate in the city stage of the International nature protection campaign “March of parks-2016”. The event will be held on May 1-16 at Kazan Children’s Ecological and Biological Center. It is aimed at fostering of ecology-oriented mindset in the young generation and its involvement in the nature protection activity. The events of the “March of Parks” are carried out in the following areas:

All those who are not indifferent to the matters related to ecology and energy efficiency are invited to participate in the Conference “Ecology and Energy Efficiency” in the framework of the XVI International Symposium “Energy and Resources Efficiency and Energy Conservation” and the XVII International specialized exhibition “Energetics. Cost-effective use of resources”. The event will be held on March 17, 2016 on the premises of “Kazan Fair” OJSC. The conference is organized by the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan together with the State Autonomous Agency “Center of energy-saving technologies of the Republic of Tatarstan under the Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Tatarstan”.

The main topics for discussion will include:

• Creation and development of high-efficiency eco-frien

The Minister for Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan, Farid Abdulganiev, will participatein the extended meeting of the Federal Service for Supervision of Natural Resource Usage, where the results of the work in 2015 will be summarized, and the main trends of activity for the year 2016 will be set.The event will be held on March15, 2016 in Moscow.Head of the Federal Service for Supervision of Natural Resource Usage, Artem Sidorov, will deliver the key report. As it is reported

The International Day of Rivers is celebrated today at dozens of countries. Earlier, such an important ecological date was called the International Anti-Dam Day, as well as the Day of Activity in Defense of Rivers, Water, and Life. For the first time, this date was celebrated in 1998. On March 14, 1998 more than 50 protest actions were held in more than 20 countries including Russia, Brazil, India, Thailand, Australia, Japan, and USA