In total, 249 applications from students of higher educational institutions and high school pupils of the Republic of Tatarstan were received for the contest.
The winners will be awarded on November 22, 2019 at a plenary meeting in the framework of the Scientific and Practical Conference on topic: “Tatarstan - Russia: 50 years of environmental education (1969-2019)”, dedicated to the 50th anniversary of the opening of the Department of Nature Protection of KSU.
According to a complaint from local residents, employees of the South-Eastern Territorial Administration of the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan found a violation of land legislation in the Nurlat town. During the inspection, the fact of wastewater discharge to the soil in the area of the Christian cemetery was revealed. In relation to SPSKK “Vostok”, a protocol on an administrative offense has been drawn up. The violator faces a fine of 440 thousand rubles.
What is daphnia, what for a chromatograph is used, and how to understand that water contains pollutants, and many other topics were told to the 6th grade pupils of secondary school No. 2 in Almetyevsk.
The laboratory staff of the South-Eastern Territorial Administration prepared a series of chemical “color” experiments for pupils. Thus, career guidance was conducted and pupils got acquainted with the environment.
The requirements of environmental legislation were violated by the enterprise in Leninogorsk. As part of a joint raid with employees of the Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for the Leninogorskiy district, inspectors from the South-Eastern Territorial Administration of the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan recorded the storage of scrap and waste ferrous and non-ferrous metals contaminated during the dismantling of vehicles. For non-compliance with the requirements for treatment of production and consumption waste, the guilty person will be held administratively liable.
A criminal case was instituted on the fact of theft of mineral resources in Privolzhskiy district of Kazan. Along Poperechno-Otarskaya street, an unknown person mined common minerals (sand). Let us recall that the violation was recorded by inspectors of the Central Territorial Administration of the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan in September this year. As a result of illegal actions, 253 cubic meters of resources were stolen. Criminal proceedings are underway under Part 1 of Article 158 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation “Theft”.
A meeting of the district methodological association on topic “Environmental Education of Preschool Children” was held in the premises of the kindergarten “Teremok” in Buinsk. The event was attended by pupils of kindergarten preparatory and senior groups, educators, teachers.
Landfills recorded during the flyby of the Kamsko-Ustyinskiy district were liquidated. In October, unauthorized waste disposal on the ground was recorded on the territory of 4 settlements - the Chelny village, Bolshiye Klyari settlement, Klyancheyevo settlement, Kamskoye Ustye townsettlemtn. The total area of cluttered plots was 1,303 square meters.
Currently, the Executive Committees of municipalities put the territory in good condition. 148 cubic meters of waste were removed.
A large batch of waste of the 1st hazard class was discovered by ecologists on the territory of the garden society in Almetyevskiy district. 6 cubic meters of mercury, fluorescent lamps dumped onto the soil on the area of 26 square meters. Inspectors of the South-Eastern Territorial Administration of the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan initiated an administrative investigation against unidentified persons under Part 3 of Article 8.2 of the Administrative Code of the Russian Federation. Violation shall entail the imposition of an administrative fine of up to 500 thousand rubles.
The Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan accepts applications for participation in the Republican contest “ECO Leader”. The most environmentally friendly enterprises and educational institutions are invited to participate - whose task is to teach nature conservation, social activists who are not indifferent to environmental problems, and, of course, journalists who during the year became real assistant inspectors of the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan.
The competition regulations can be found on the website of the Ministry of Ecology of the Republic of Tatarstan in the section “Activities of the Ministry” - “Conferences, competitions, support of SONPO”: http://eco.tatarstan.ru/eng/2018-2867297.htm.
12,156 appeals were received by the Republican Public Reception Office of the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan since the beginning of the year.
7,448 of them came are through the School Eco-patrol mobile application.
Ecologists also examined 1,281 messages received via the People’s Control system, and 1,611 notifications by e-mail, the Ministry’s hot line and WhatsApp, Telegram communication channels. 1,816 appeals were received at personal receptions of citizens and through the reception of the Ministry.