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A criminal case was initiated on the fact of illegal sand mining in Apastovskiy district. The message about unlicensed use of subsoil in the water protection zone of the Sviyaga River was received by the local police department from fishermen.

Today, an off-site meeting of the State Duma Committee on Ecology and Environmental Protection was held in Cheboksary. The event was attended by the Minister of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan, Aleksandr Shadrikov.

During state monitoring inspectors of the Zavolzhskiy Territorial Administration of the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan found industrial waste in the place not intended for this purpose. One of the trading companies of Buinsk town discharged garbage on the site for the temporary waste disposal of Malobuinkovskiy rural settlement.

Send more reports about landfills, show your student ID and get a prize. Such is the scheme of successful participation in the campaign conducted by the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan. The project on informing about the places of unauthorized disposal of waste is being implemented in the framework of the GIS RT "People's Control" among students of higher and secondary specialized educational institutions of Tatarstan.

Environmentalists told students about the implementation of environmental monitoring and laboratory research. Students of Chistopol Agricultural Technical School named after G.I. Usmanov visited the specialized inspection of analytical control of the Volga-Kama Territorial Administration of the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan. The future specialists were given a tour of subdivisions of the special inspection, told about the control over the protection of atmospheric air and supervision of the use and protection of water bodies.

What is seedbombing and is it necessary for the republic? How to save rare plant species and to teach the population the skills of separate garbage collection? Answers to these and other questions were sought by the participants in section “Environmental Education” in the framework of the VII Forum of Young Citizens of the Republic of Tatarstan. A meeting of specialists of the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan with activists of children's public associations of the republic was held in the Volga youth center.

Efficiency of water management in the Volga basin was discussed today at the regular meeting of the Basin Council of the Upper Volga basin district in Cheboksary. The event was attended by the Minister of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan, Aleksandr Shadrikov.

Today is World Animals Day. The holiday is aimed at drawing the attention of mankind to the problems of other inhabitants of the planet: to help stray animals, to increase activity on environmental protection, to prevent the extinction of endangered species of animals, to fight poaching. Animals are our friends and lifeguards.

Today the Ministry of Ecology of the Republic of Tatarstan congratulated veterans of the industry who worked in different years in the field of nature conservation. The event, dedicated to the International Day of Older Persons, gathered more than 60 people. Aleksandr Shadrikov, Minister of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan, addressed the older generation with warm words and good wishes: “You are our role model, our heritage”.

Kazan first-graders talked about ecology today. Specialists from the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan conducted an eco-lesson “Planet Earth” in gymnasium No. 122 in Kazan. “Our planet is a house, a house for a mouse and a crane, a worm and a butterfly, a pine tree and a lily of the valley”, began her story a Specialist of the Ministry, Leysan Faizullina.