Today the VI Nevsky International Environmental Congress takes place in St. Petersburg. The subject “Environmental culture is the basis of environmental problems solution” is declared as a subject of the Congress. Discussion of biotechnological issues, development of environmental innovations, legal and law-enforcement aspects of environmental insurance as well as production and household waste utilization is planned. Rustem Kamalov, the First Deputy Minister for Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan, also took part in the work of the Congress.
Within the framework of the Congress, campaigns on paper waste collection and dangerous waste reception will take place in the Taurida garden, the Eco-Cinema, where the best environment-oriented documentary, feature and animation films will be shown, will be opened. Participants will visit a complex of protective constructions of St. Petersburg. A photo exhibition devoted to the International Day of biological diversity will be opened in the Summer 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.