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World Earth Day is held on the Day of the Vernal Equinox in the Northern Hemisphere. This year, the Vernal Equinox Day falls on March 20 at 10:28 UTC, or 14:28 in Tbilisi time. Today, the length of the day and night is almost the same throughout the world. Equinox, occurring in the spring, is one of the most unique and stunning natural phenomena, the essence of which lies in the astronomical principles of the movement of the Sun and the Earth.

The world’s largest environmental action this year will be held on March 25 from 20:30 to 21:30. The theme of “Earth Hour – 2017”is the responsible human attitude to nature. It’s about how people change everything around them - land, air, water, forests, and the consequences of such impact for humanity. The slogan of the action is “Change yourself, not the planet”. The action is held annually, on the last Saturday of March at the initiative of the World Wildlife Fund, and symbolizes the solidarity of the inhabitants of various states in solving energy and resource saving problems, improving the ecological situation on a global scale. To support the Earth Hour, bike ridesare traditionally held in many cities.

Violation against nature was discovered by inspectors of the Kama Territorial Administration of the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan during the survey of the territory of Nizhnekamsk. On the land plot near the village Prosti, environmental recorded violations under Article 8.6 part 1 of the Code of Administrative Offenses

Resultsof research work of schoolchildren were summarized in the City Palace of Children’s Art named afterA.Alish. This year, participants of the city conference “Earth and water” became 35 students of Kazan schools. Helena Gilmizyanova, a specialist of the department of environmental education and interaction with public organizations of the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan, addressed the schoolchildren and teachers with a salutatory word. “Our Motherland – the Republic of Tatarstan – is rich in natural resources. We are surrounded by great rivers, green forests, endless meadows. But some unique objects of nature are subject to extinction.

Children’s ecological and biological centre of Nizhnekamsk gathered young ecologists-researchers of the whole republic. Students of schools took part in the V Republican Ecological Festival “Nature and Us”. Expertsfrom the Kama Territorial Administration of the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan appliedwith a welcoming speech to the participants and guests of the event. “Nature and man are two inseparable concepts.

Restrictions on traveling abroad are imposed on the resident of Muslyumovo for an unpaid fine for environmental violation. In May 2016, he was prosecuted for violation of Article 8.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation “Non-compliance with environmental and sanitary-epidemiological requirements when handling production and consumption wastes, substances that deplete the ozone layer, or other dangerous substances”, under art. 8.21 part 1 of

“Nature and man: friends or enemies?”. Questions of the relationship between man and nature were discussed by students of the secondary school No. 1 of the Spassk District during an open environmental lesson. The educational event for the children was conducted by the teachers of the school together with the head of the district KamilNugaev, the head of the territorial administration of the Federal Property Management Agency in the Republic of Tatarstan GulnaraSergeeva, and the specialists of the Volga-Kama territorial administration of the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan.

For the eighth time a large-scale international forum “Ecology” will be held in Moscow at the congress-park “Radisson Royal Hotel, Moscow”on 20-21 March. The forum will be held under the project of the party “United Russia”, “St. Petersburg –the sea capital of Russia”. The event program covers a wide range of issues related to legal regulation in the field of environmental protection and waste management, water utilitiesmodernization, implementation of the best available practices, development

The inspector of the Volga-Kama territorial administration of the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan conducted a vocational orientation lesson for senior students of Alekseevsk school No. 1. On the lesson the students learned about the work of the inspectors of the Ministry.

The authors of the short movie about the swan, which cleans up garbage on Lake Kaban, cleaned the territory of the waterfowltoday. They cleaned the shore under the motto “Start with yourself”. Cleaning means were provided by employees of the Kamala Theater, and passers-by helped to bring the garbage to waste bins.