NEWS
Since the beginning of the year, the Republican Public Reception Office of the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan received 8,684 appeals. Half of them are via the School Eco-patrol mobile application. Through the “People’s control” system, ecologists reviewed 1,236 messages, 1,295 notifications were received via WhatsApp, Telegram, Eco.signal, “Hotline” communication channels. The Ministry reviewed 2,051 appeals at personal receptions of citizens and through the reception.
Discharge of oil sludge into a centralized drainage system. After applying of Almetyevskiy municipal service, inspectors of the South-Eastern Territorial Administration of the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan resolved who allowed the unauthorized connection in Tikhonovka village. To find out the offenders, environmentalists installed a photo-trap. And in the near future, technical equipment allowed to capture how sewage trucks performed sewage disposal.
How do bees make honey and why do leaves change color in the fall? Answers to these and other questions about nature were searched by participants of the children's zonal environmental protection and educational project “First steps of young researchers”. 22 young ecologists from Ulyanovsk, Tetyushskiy, Apastovskiy, Verkhneuslonskiy and other districts of the republic presented their works in the Buinskiy kindergarten “ABVGDEYKa”.
The conference was opened by a fabulous play on nature conservation. “Scientific laboratories” were presented in the hall of kindergarten: here children were experimenters and research scientists.
Message on dumping of construction waste in the field was received by the Zakamskiy Territorial Administration of the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan. An indifferent citizen reported by WhatsApp communication channel that the dump was located in the territory of Sarmanovskiy district near Shigaevo village. Ecologists who arrived at the site fixed building materials — slate, glass wool — were brought there after replacing the roof.
65 research papers and 120 participants. Republican Scientific and Practical Ecological Conference of Schoolchildren "Ecology, City and We" was held in Naberezhnye Chelny. Pupils and teachers from Elabuzhskiy, Nurlatskiy, Muslyumovskiy, Sarmanovskiy, Tukayevskiy, Mamadyshskiy, Nizhnekamskiy, Menzelinskiy districts and the city of Naberezhnye Chelny presented works in the following sections:
- "Ecological study of territories";
- “Ecology and health”;
- "Ecology of plants";
- "Ecology of city";
- “Ecology of animals and water”.
A message about regular smoke from one of the industrial enterprises in the area of the base of the building industry of the city was received by the Prikamskiy Territorial Administration of the Ministry of Ecology of the Republic of Tatarstan from local residents. When visiting the site, state inspectors found violations of operation of the wood-fired heating furnace and metalworking machines for production of auto-ladders. “According to the method of calculating emissions of harmful (polluting) substances, this equipment is a source of soot, nitrous oxide, and sulfur dioxide emissions into the atmospheric air”, said environmentalists.
Containers were removed, but the habit of throwing away remained. In Krasnyi Klyuch settlement of Nizhnekamskiy district, an unauthorized dump of 50 m2 was discovered by inspectors of the Zakamskiy Territorial Administration of the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan. Ecologists managed to fix those responsible for formation of bulk with the help of photo and video traps. Devices fixed that at least five car owners repeatedly carried out landfilling.
Fact of illegal mining is discovered by inspectors of the South-Eastern Territorial Administration in Almetyevskiy district. The license for geological study of the Novotroitskoye site was issued to a Kazan enterprise. However, during the raids, state inspectors repeatedly recorded facts of limestone mining in this area. “In different time intervals, we found working excavators and loaders, abandoned equipment and traces of exploitation. We also managed to trace the paths of further implementation of common mineral resources. The preliminary damage caused to the subsoil amounted to about 8 million rubles”, said environmentalists.
How to join the ranks of environmental volunteers? Today the guests of “Clean Tatarstan" program are Head of the State Inspectorate for Environmental Supervision of the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan, Aleksei Polyushkov, and Public Inspector of Environmental Protection, Alina Frolova.
A contest-exhibition of children's creativity “The Second Life of Packaging - 2018” was announced for pupils of 1-11th grades of the city of Kazan. From October 22 to November 2, 2018 works reflecting natural objects: animals or plants made of waste material are accepted.