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With the planting of 2017 young trees was launched today the republican project "Green Shield of Tatarstan”. Minister of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan Farid Abdulganiev, First Deputy Minister of Forestry of the Republic of Tatarstan Emir Bedertdinov, Head of Rosprirodnadzor for RT Farit Khayrutdinov, Mayor of Nizhnekamsk Aidar Metshin, employees of enterprises and organizations of the city planted the first seedlings in the sanitary protection zone of Nizhnekamsk. “Planting trees is the first step towards preserving natural resources. Through the creation of green forest belts, we are improving the social and environmental well-being of the republic, namely, we are contributing to the preservation of our clean air,” said Minister of Ecology Farid Abdulganiev.

Today, experts of the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan familiarized themselves with the environmental activities of the Nizhnekamsk industrial enterprises. As part of the work trip, environmentalists visited the facility of Tatneft, a complex of oil refineries and petrochemical plants named TANECO. They inspected combined hydrocracking unit, delayed coking unit, flare facility, treatment plant and industrial waste landfill.

Creation of environment management systems, reduction of man-caused load, including on the basis of regional environmental quality standards, organization of continuous monitoring of emissions and discharges of pollutants on the largest enterprises. These priority measures were discussed today in Nizhnekamsk as part of the Expanded Meeting of the Organizing Committee for the Year of Ecology and Public Spaces in the Republic of Tatarstan. The event was attended by Prime Minister of the Republic of Tatarstan Alexey Pesoshin, Minister of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan Farid Abdulganiev, Head of Rosprirodnadzor for the Republic of Tatarstan Farit Khayrutdinov, Mayor of Nizhnekamsk Aidar Metshin. The Prime Minister of the Republic of Tatarstan Alexei Pesoshin stressed that Tatarstan has a rich experience in solving priority tasks on environmental protection and ensuring environmental security.

On October 13, an environmental action on garbage collection and tree planting will be held in Kazan. Anyone can come and help to clean the territory of Russian-German Switzerland and contribute to the greening of the city. The event will take place on the Kazanka shore from the Arsk cemetery (Podluzhnaya str.) within the framework of the nature protection action “Forest Week-2017”, which started in the republic on October 7.

For the fourth time, the Goethe-Institute announced a contest among schoolchildren “School for Ecology: think, explore, act!”, aiming to draw the attention of schoolchildren to environmental problems. Teams of students from the 7th to 11th grades, as well as their German teachers and subject teachers (biology, ecology, geography, chemistry, physics) are invited to participate. Together with the teachers, schoolchildren should explore the ecological situation in their city (village), on their street, in their school and offer ideas aimed at improving the environmental situation and attracting the public attention to it. Environmental projects must be uploaded to the contest website before November 1, 2017.

The Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan announces the start of the republican contest “ECOleader”. The most eco-friendly enterprises and educational institutions are invited to participate – whose task is to teach how to take care of nature, public figures who are not indifferent to environmental problems and, of course, journalists who during the year became real assistants to inspectors of the Ministry of Ecology of Tatarstan.
 The works are accepted for the following groups and nominations:
Organizations and individual entrepreneurs:

Within the framework of the Year of Ecology and the 100th anniversary of the Russian system of protected areas, an exhibition of natural photography “National Park “Lower Kama” was opened at the Kazan International Airport. 50 photos, reflecting unique landscapes, rare and characteristic representatives of the flora and fauna of the reserve are presented at the Terminal 1A. The authors of the photographs are employees and friends of the national park.

On October 12 at 3 pm, in the hall of the City Palace of Children and Youth No. 1 of Naberezhnye Chelny, will be held the grand opening of the project “Eco-assets – 2017”, which is aimed at shaping the students' ecological thinking, forming a culture of handling household waste. The project is implemented by the Naberezhnye Chelny Branch of the All-Russian Ecological Movement Musora.Bolshe.Net in conjunction with the Prikamsky Territorial Administration of the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan and the Department of Education and Youth Affairs of the Executive Committee of Naberezhnye Chelny.

Students of Alkeevo branch of the Alekseevsky Agroculture college together with activists of the Young Guard conducted an environmental action in the village of Bazarnye Mataki. The object of improvement was the Stepan Krainov street, the hero of the Soviet Union. Young people broke a linden alley. The trees were planted in honour of the fellow countryman, who bravely fought for the Victory in the Great Patriotic War. “These trees will become a kind of living monument in our village,” noted the residents of Alkeevo.

The pit filled with sewage in the Podgorny settlement of the Bugulma district was found by environmentalists in July this year. Untreated effluents flowed from the local sewage system. Wear of sewerage treatment facilities and total absence of preventive measures by the local authorities led to the destruction of protected lands. According to the estimates of the inspectors of the South-Eastern Territorial Administration of the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan, 1,200 sq.m. of soil was destructed.