Rafting united all nature protection departments of Tatarstan. Equator of the Year of Ecology was marked in the republic

To examine the sanitary condition of the Mesha river banks and to study a new tourist route. With this purpose more than one hundred representatives of nature protection agencies gathered in Pestrechinsky district on the river bank. In Tatarstan, ECO-rafting-2017 was timed to the equator of the Year of Ecology in Russia and the Year of Ecology and Public Spaces in the Republic of Tatarstan. The total length of the route is 15 km. “Ecological rafting is becoming a good tradition, – said Farid Abdulganiev, Minister of Ecology and Natural Resources of Tatarstan. “Last year it was devoted to the Year of Water Protection Zones, in this – to the Year of Ecology. The primary task is to inspect the sanitary condition of the coastal strips and to monitor the state of the water body. Throughout the route, natural water is sampled for analysis, the Minister said. – Today we appreciated the beauty of the Tatarstan nature, our small rivers, and it is especially pleasant that we see clean beaches, clean river, which indicates an increase in the ecological culture of the population of Tatarstan. Our task now is to preserve the ecological balance, cleanliness of water bodies, so that in future the ecotourism sector could develop.”
One of the key tasks of the ecological rafting was to draw public attention to the small rivers that make up the national fund of Tatarstan, says Dmitry Shiller, Chairman of the regional branch of the RGS in the Republic of Tatarstan: “The small river is part of a large river –it is the wealth of Tatarstan. Ecologists are white knights, who not only inspect the cleanliness of the surrounding world, but also attract a huge number of people to the work of nature protection by their actions.”
The raft is organized by the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan together with the Tatarstan branch of the Russian Geographical Society. It was attended by the heads of the Veterinary Administration under the Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Tatarstan, the administration of Pestrechinsky district, representatives of nature protection agencies of the Republic of Tatarstan.

Press Service of MENR of RT