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“Everyone is important to the nature. Let’s save biodiversity!”–the International campaign “March of parks-2016” will be held on April 22-26 under this slogan. The campaign is aimed at enhancement in the importance of specially protected territories, assurance of the relevant publicmaintenance of the protectednatural territory, involvement of citizens in rendering practical assistanceto nature reserves

Tukaevo District Court of the Republic of Tatarstan passed a sentence with regard to the criminal case against an entrepreneurfrom Tukaevo district, Elagudzha Dilebashvili.He was found guilty of committing a crime envisaged by part3 of Article 291 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (official bribery for knowingly illegal actions). It was established by the Court that in July2015 during ecological monitoring of the territory of Tatarstan village (Tukaevo district), an inspector of the Cis-Kama Department revealed the fact of a glaring violationon the part of the entrepreneur. The latter, in contempt of all the rules of safe recovery of hazardous

An extended meeting of the Board of the Federal Service for Supervision of Natural Resource Usage was held today in Moscow regarding “Results of the work of the Federal Service for Supervision of Natural Resource Usage in 2015 and the main trends of activity set for 2016”. Deputy Chairperson of the Government of the Russian Federation, Alexander Khloponin, the Minister for Natural Resources and Ecology of the Russian Federation, Sergey Donskoy, Chairperson of the Committee of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation for Agricultural and Industrial Policy and Nature Use, Gennadiy Gorbunov, Chairperson of the Committee of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federationfor

Young biological and ecological specialists are invited to participate in the VIICity Ecological Forum “Zilantenok”. It is held in the framework of the open long-term ecological project “Zilant” aimed at implementation of the system approach in ecological education and upbringing of the young generation. The event will be held on April 9th at Kazan Children’s Ecological and BiologicalCenter. “Protection

Pieces of work for the contest of children’s creative work “Let’s create from paper” are accepted until March 17, 2016. The contest is held to attract pupils’ attention to arts and crafts, as well as to foster careful and responsible attitude to nature throughthe instruments of artwork. The Board of Education of Kazan Executive Committee and Kazan Children’s Ecological and Biological Center are the organizers of the event.

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