The “Ecological expedition” to small rivers starts in Tatarstan

     The “Ecological expedition” to small rivers of the Republic of Tatarstan is to start on August 3, 2015 on the initiative of the local branch of the Russian Geographical Society in Chistopol. The youth underwater and research team of the Russian Geographical Society will accomplish the float by catamaran ships along such rivers as Sheshma, Prost, and Kama. The float will start on August 3 at 10 am in the Novosheshminsk village, and it will finish on August 6 in Chistopol. The expedition team comprises two groups: the floating group that will be travelling by river and the group of technical support that will accompany the first group along the whole route by cars.

The project is devoted to the Year of water protection areas of the Volga and Kama rivers that will be held in 2016 on the initiative of the Interim President of the Republic of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov. The “Ecological expedition” is implemented together with the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan, public movement “Together with the President”, municipal authorities of Chistopol and Novosheshminsk in order to attract public attention to the problems of ecological state of rivers and to establish the culture for appropriate nature use, to form ecological culture among young people, to study the matters related to pollution of small rivers and to attract attention to the problems of ecological state of the coastal areas of water facilities of the Republic of Tatarstan. It is planned to hold ecological campaign at the points of start and finish of the expedition implying cleaning of coastal territories.

Press Service of the Ministry