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Every year on April 19, the world celebrates a beautiful spring holiday that has already become traditional – Primrose day. Snowdrops are the first flowers that appear after the winter cold, symbolize the beginning of spring. Specially for this day, ecologists of the territorial departments of the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan have prepared various activities for children.

During March, activists of the youth environmental movement "It will be clean" shared their eco-knowledge throughout the Republic of Tatarstan. More than 6,500 students from 16 districts of the republic took part in the educational campaign. Ecological classes, games, quests and master classes were held in Almetyevsk, Agryz, Nizhnekamsk, Kazan, Alekseevsky, Sarmanovsky, Chistopolsky, Mamadyshsky, Zelenodolsk, Arsky, Muslyumovsky, Yutazinsky, Leninogorsky, Pestrechinsky, Nurlatsky and Buinsky districts.

Inspectors of the Zavolzhsky Territorial Administration of the Ministry of Ecology of the Republic of Tatarstan and employees of the State Committee for Biological Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan, together with the young students of the M. M. Vakhitov Gymnasium, hung birdhouses in the park named after the Decembrist V. P. Ivashev.

The University of Management "TISBI" held a professional development program on the topic "Ecology through sustainable Development Goals: from environmental awareness to environmental education and environmental culture". Within the framework of the program, training was also organized for representatives of environmental non-profit organizations, volunteer associations and activists of the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug – Yugra.

During the first two weeks of the sanitary two-month period, which started in Tatarstan on April 1, environmental agencies and supervisory authorities revealed 1,371 violations. More than half of the violations have already been eliminated - 730. 298 protocols were drawn up, administrative fines were imposed for a total amount of 130.5 thousand rubles. Every second violation (693) is associated with unauthorized waste disposal, 345 landfills have been liquidated.

The XXI district ecological conference of schoolchildren "Ecology and me" for students of grades 6-11 was held  at the school named after Academician R. Z. Sagdeev in Buinsk. Ecologists of the Zavolzhsky Territorial Administration of the Ministry also took part in the conference.

Inspectors of the Kama Territorial Administration of the Ministry of Ecology of the Republic of Tatarstan and educators of the Children's Ecological and Biological Center No. 4 conducted an environmental quiz for the second-graders of the school No. 2 in Naberezhnye Chelny.

In the Republic, measures are being taken to clean up the territory within the framework of the sanitary and ecological two-month period.  Among the first, activists of the youth environmental movement "It will be clean" joined it. In the first week of April, the volunteers of "It Will Be Clean" organized 16 environmental events.

Inspectors of the South-Eastern Territorial Administration of the Ministry of Ecology conducted an ecological lesson "The Power of the forest" for the preparatory groups "Solnyshko" and "Alye parusa" of kindergarten No. 14 "Rodnichok" of Leninogorsk district.

A regional environmental seminar entitled "Ecological education of preschool children was held in the Arsky kindergarten. The development of horizons and experimental research activities". The event was attended by inspectors of the Northern Territorial Administration of the Ministry of Ecology of the Republic of Tatarstan.