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This year, the largest in the world ecological campaign will be held on March 19th at 8:30 pm local time. The humanity’s ecological footprint will be the topic of the event. The campaign symbolizes solidarity of citizens of various countries in solution of issues regarding energy and resource saving, as well as improvement of ecological situation on the planetary scale. The website dedicated to the Earth Hour 2016 was launched presenting more detailed information on the campaign to participate in it. The official website of the campaign – 60.wwf.ru.

Heads of all the authorities, state authorities of the Republic of Tatarstan, companies and organizations, as well as population of the Republic were invited to join the campaign and switch off for

A district ecological and geographical conference was held at the secondary school of Verkhny Akbash village of Kukmor municipal district on the following topic: “Through search and creation – to perfection”. The event was arranged by the Educational Board of the Executive Committee of Kukmor Municipal Districtof the Republic of Tatarstan, and the “Center for out-of-school activity”of Kukmor districtwith participation of the Northern

Special containers were installed at the residential complex of Innopolis for collection ofrecyclable materials. Dual collection is used to facilitate separate waste collection.Such a system envisages installation of additional containers at the sites for all recyclable materials including waste paper, plastic bottles, and polyethylene. The contents of these containers are further removed to the sorting center, wherespecially trained specialists divide recyclable materials into fractions, which will further be processed.The Volga Ecological Company is the partner of the project. Moreover, a campaign was

Members of the expedition “The Polar Circle” (research and development team of the Russian Geographical Society) arrivedtoday in Kazan by train. Deputy Minister for Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan, Fayaz Shakirov, journalists, representatives of public organizations, and members of the sports society “Dynamo” greeted them at the railway station. During the expedition that lasted for a month, Kazan divers set a record at the White Sea with regard to ice diving, having submerged to 102 meters. Moreover, the divers tested domestic experimental equipmentused for

Young ecological and biological specialists, geographers and journalists are invited to participate in the Annual YouthFar East Ecological Conference-contest “Man and biosphere”. The event will be held at the Institute of Biology and Soil Sciences under the Far East Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences from March 31 to April 1. In 2016, the conference becomes an international event, since pupils and students from the Asian-Pacific Region will participate in it. It is possible to participate

Recovery and protection of water resources, equipment and services for the rational use, purification of sewage waters, water bottling–these and other matters for the water sector development will be reviewed at the International ForumECWATECH-2016. The event will be held at the new exhibition pavilion No. 75 located on the premises of the All-Union Exhibition of Achievements of National Economy (VDNKh)in Moscow on April 26-28, 2016.The Forum is organized by “ECWATECH

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

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 

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: